Papon lawyer vows to bury him with medal
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A prominent French political figure who ordered hundreds of Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II will be buried wearing his Legion of Honor medal, his lawyer said Sunday, even though the deceased man was stripped of his right to wear the decoration in 1998.
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Paul Hamm said yesterday that he would give back his Olympic gold medal if sport&#39;s highest court ordered him to. But lawyers for the American gymnast and the
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An Australian politician famed for his pledge to &quot;keep the bastards honest&quot; will be given a state funeral after dying at the age of 81, Prime Minister John Howard said.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- The French Olympic team is to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to try to win back its three-day event Olympic gold medal in Athens.
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The lawyer for Lisa Nowak -- the former NASA astronaut accused of assaulting a romantic rival -- will ask a judge Friday to throw out her statements to police, suppress evidence collected from her car and remove her ankle-bracelet monitor.
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A Chinese researcher for the New York  Times who was sentenced to three years jail for fraud will  contest the conviction after having beat a separate charge of  illegally leaking state secrets, his lawyer said on Monday.
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Two men found guilty of stabbing a City lawyer to death are due to be sentenced.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who remained in a deep coma and close to death at a hospital outside of Paris Wednesday, will be buried at his battered headquarters
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Relatives of one of the most contentious Jewish figures from the Holocaust era are hoping that archives they turned over will clear the name of the man both praised and vilified for bargaining with the Nazis for the lives of Jews.
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Convicted French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon is to undergo a heart operation at the age of 96.
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Now that prosecutors have rested their largely circumstantial case against him, the electrician charged with beating his girlfriend's millionaire husband to death is predicting he will be found innocent.
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Victim's fight could make legal history by extending the deadline for sufferers to seek compensation.
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The Irishman who was arrested after obstructing Brazilian athlete Vanderlei de Lima in the men&#39;s Olympic marathon will be brought to the general district attorney&#39;s office in Athens today.
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27-year-old charged over stabbing as PC's widow pays tribute to a devoted father.
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Convicted French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon asked to be buried wearing his Legion d'Honneur medal for services to France, his lawyer said on Sunday, causing fresh controversy after his death.
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Maurice Papon, who was convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died, his lawyer said Saturday. He was 96.
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A U.S.-based press freedom watchdog is to honor a Chinese reporter who spent years behind bars after exposing a fraudulent irrigation project, the group said in a statement on Tuesday.