Polish author jailed for murder
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A Polish author is jailed for murdering a businessman, four years after publishing a novel detailing a similar crime.
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A Philippine court sentenced three men to life in prison on Friday for killing a newspaper columnist, a rare conviction in one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists.
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A man who murdered a woman in an explosion as he tried to cover up the killing of a flatmate is jailed for life.
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WARSAW, Poland A museum has opened in Poland to honor the victim of one of the country's most notorious murders.
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A former Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader is sentenced to 34 years for wartime murder and rape.
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The Polish satirist Jerzy Urban has been convicted and fined for "illegally insulting" his fellow countryman Pope John Paul II, in a case which has set secular liberals against the country's powerful Catholic ...
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killer cases.
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A Ukrainian man is jailed for murdering a Wolverhampton football fan at the Euro 2004 tournament in Portugal.
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A Chicago businessman accused of soliciting the 1998 murder of a former Warsaw police chief was denied bail on Tuesday and must remain in jail while a court considers a Polish request for his extradition.
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A Polish crime writer has been jailed  for 25 years after authorities found he had committed a murder  that had been described in one of his thrillers, officials said  Wednesday.
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A 57-year-old man is jailed for life after killing a young mother and dismembering her body.
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The father and uncle of honour killing victim Banaz Mahmod were sentenced to life in prison Friday for her murder.
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Polish writer and poet Czeslaw Milosz, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1980, died at the age of 93, PAP news agency quoted his family as saying.
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Russia's "chessboard murderer" was  sentenced to life in prison on Monday for killing 48 people,  after the supermarket worker told a court last week he felt  like God as he decided whether his victims should live or die.
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A journalist accused of involvement in a terrorist group in southeastern Iran has been sentenced to death, the judiciary said Tuesday.
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A Russian court jails a man for 16 years for stabbing worshippers at a Moscow synagogue in January.