Sri Lanka reintroduces executions
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Sri Lanka's government lifts a 30-year moratorium on capital punishment, following the killing of a high court judge.
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Pakistan's National Assembly brings in the death penalty for extreme cases of so-called honour killings.
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HENDALA, Sri Lanka -- Day after day, locked in a cement room somewhere in Iraq, the hooded men beat him. They told him he would be beheaded. ''Ameriqi!&quot; they shouted, even though he comes from this poor Sri Lankan fishing village.
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Libya says death sentences on five Bulgarian nurses convicted of spreading HIV could be re-examined.
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A Norwegian delegation, lead by Foreign Minister Jan Petersen is presently in Sri Lanka, to try to find out if it is possible to re-start the peace process in the island nation.
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Croatia's highest court has ordered a retrial of eight former military policemen who were acquitted of killing and torturing Serb prisoners.
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The state of Texas executed a convicted murderer by lethal injection on Wednesday, in its 400th execution since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
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Norway is set to make a fresh bid to salvage Sri Lanka's peace process two years after kicking off internationally-backed negotiations with hopes of ending three decades of ethnic bloodshed.
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Norway's foreign minister is due in Sri Lanka in a fresh attempt to revive the stalled peace process.
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Colombo - Sri Lanka on Monday short-circuited legal formalities to speed up funerals for the thousands of dead in this country which suffered the heaviest loss of life from tidal waves which swept across Asia on Sunday, an official said.
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The foreign ministry has tightened up its advice to travellers in north and east Sri Lanka after at least six people were killed in the troubled area.
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More than 940 people have been executed since the United States reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Not one was in New England.
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Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has said that the government can no longer ignore the spate of killings by the Tamil Tiger rebels, a presidential statement available here on Thursday.
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The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to review for the second time the death penalty case of a convicted Texas killer whose sentence the justices had previously overturned.
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A United Nations investigator said on   Tuesday that "political killings" continued in Sri Lanka and   called for international human rights monitors to be sent to   the island.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger insurgency is threatening to resume armed struggles unless the government accepts the rebels&#39; blueprint for self-rule.
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WHERE: Saudi Arabia, where beheading is the punishment for murder, rape, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Human Rights groups say the number of executions has risen sharply and is already above 100 this year.