Vietnam cuts Glitter's sentence
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British ex-rocker Gary Glitter, imprisoned in Vietnam for sexually molesting two young girls, on Wednesday had his three-year sentence reduced by three months, his lawyer said.
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Nuclear trafficking charges against the owner of a South African engineering plant are dropped.
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French rock star Bertrand Cantat, jailed for killing his actress lover in Lithuania, may be allowed to serve the rest of his sentence in France.
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&quot;Lust, Caution,&quot; a sexually explicit  spy thriller which won the best picture award at the Venice  Film Festival, has been cut by 30 minutes to allow Chinese  children to watch it, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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DONG HA, Vietnam  - In the same week that dozens of countries declared plans to ban cluster munitions, a boy was killed by the explosion of a steel ball he picked up and threw while tending livestock.
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A Los Angeles judge brought an early end to Courtney Love's probation on drug and assault charges on Monday, telling the tearful singer she had earned it by completing a substance abuse program.
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A US soldier who pleaded guilty to deserting to North Korea nearly four decades ago was sentenced to 30-days confinement and a dishonorable discharge on Wednesday, ending one of the Cold War&#39;s strangest dramas.
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NHA TRANG, Vietnam  - It was the destruction of coral reef and over-fishing that moved artist Nguyen Lieu to paint brightly coloured canvasses warning Vietnamese that their coastal environment is in peril.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - Prosecutors yesterday reduced charges against a US military policewoman accused in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal as a set of pretrial hearings wrapped up at an American base in Germany.
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A Moroccan court on Tuesday slightly reduced the sentences of two journalists convicted for publishing confidential information related to the country&#39;s anti-terrorism operations.
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A verdict in the case of Lt. Col Steven Jordan ends the last military prosecution in the prison abuse scandal. But sources tell TIME that charges could be brought for the first time against civilian contractors
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British rocker Gary Glitter, who was convicted of molesting two girls in southern Vietnam, may get his three-year prison term reduced next week as part of a nationwide Lunar New Year prison amnesty, a court official said Friday.
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Respect for religious freedom in Vietnam has improved but the communist nation continues to impose curbs on religious groups, the US State Department said in a report.
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A typhoon ripped off roofs, felled trees and cut power lines on Vietnam's central coast on Sunday, killing at least seven people before weakening overland and moving into neighboring Laos, officials said.
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Actress Mia Farrow has been barred from holding a ceremony at a notorious Khmer Rouge prison as part of a campaign to pressure China to end abuses in Darfur, a Cambodian official said Wednesday.
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"Lust, Caution", a sexually explicit spy thriller which won the best picture award at the Venice Film Festival, has been cut by 30 minutes to allow Chinese children to watch it, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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Charles Jenkins, a US military serviceman, received a minor sentence Wednesday to 30 days in confinement and dishonorable discharge by a US court-martial for his desertion in 1960s, the US Army said.