Pitcairn Island mayor sacked
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PITCAIRN Island mayor Steve Christian has been sacked after being sentenced to three years&#39; jail for sex abuse crimes, British High Commission spokesman Bryan Nicolson said in Wellington today.
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The mayor of Britain&#39;s farthest flung Pacific colony, Pitcairn, pleaded innocent to 10 charges of rape and sexual assault Wednesday, the BBC reported.
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The mayor and five other men on the small Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to as much as six years in prison for a string of rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the remote and isolated home of the HMS Bounty
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Former Irish International Alan Kernaghan and his Livingston manager Allan Preston have been sacked from their positions in the clubs management team at Scottish Premier League side Livingston Football Club.
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RIOTING mobs, protesting over the death of an Aboriginal man in custody, yesterday burnt down a courthouse and a police station and barracks and threatened to kill officers on Queensland&#39;s Palm Island.
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The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men,  descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, began on  Wednesday with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and  underage sex, Television New Zealand reported.
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Women on the tiny Pacific Island of Pitcairn have criticised forthcoming sex abuse trials that will see half the island&#39;s men - including the mayor - in the dock.
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SYDNEY -- Six men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn, media there reported yesterday, following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on the island home of descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers. Among those convicted was the island's mayor, Steve Christian, who claims to be a direct descendant ...
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Two Chinese officials have been sacked and dozens more punished over the involvement of teachers in a child prostitution scandal, Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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The mayor of the Russian Far East's largest city was stripped of his authority Wednesday amid a criminal investigation into suspect land deals and embezzlement in the latest bout of corruption to hit the long-troubled Pacific port.
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Faced with a rising murder rate, Baltimore's interim mayor announced Thursday that she was replacing the head of the city's police department.
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An American doctor whose home was raided by federal agents investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks has been sacked by his hospital.
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Six of the seven men charged with sex attacks on Pitcairn Island have been found guilty. Mayor Steve Christian was found guilty of five rapes.
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Sacked Pitcairn Island commissioner, Leon Salt, has failed to win his job back, after an employment tribunal here heard that he attempted to undermine British attempts to prosecute several Pitcairn men facing multiple sex charges, a report said.
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The police chief of the Slovenian capital is sacked over the handling of anti-Roma protests at the weekend.
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Park wardens in the Galapagos Islands force the sacking of their boss in a row over conservation.
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South Africa's ruling African National Congress has sacked its chief whip after finding him guilty of sexual harassment.