Uzbek court jails 23 over attacks
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A court in Uzbekistan sentences 23 people to up to 18 years in jail for their role in a series of atttacks.
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WANA, Pakistan -- Seventeen people, including 12 Al-Qaeda-linked Uzbeks, were killed yesterday in the first reported clash between militants and tribesmen in a Pakistani region seen as a hotbed of militant support.
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Nine suspected al-Qaida militants charged in the 2003 Istanbul suicide bombings that killed 58 people gave final statements in court Friday as their trial drew to a close, with one telling supporters: "Don't give up for any reason!" The attacks on Nov. 15 and Nov. 20, 2003, targeted two synagogues, the British consulate and a London-based bank.
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A powerful blast ripped through a coal  mine in Kazakhstan on Sunday, killing 23 people, a spokesman  for the Central Asian state's emergencies agency said.
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MADRID (International Herald-Tribune) - As a verdict was due here Wednesday in the biggest Islamic terrorism trial in Europe, the government put security forces on alert and prepared new memorial services for the 191 people who were killed when 10 bombs packed with nails exploded on commuter trains in this capital on March 11, 2004. A three-judge panel was set to read out the verdicts and sentences after nearly five months of testimony by hundreds of witnesses, a spider's web of arguments by more than 40 attorneys and sporadic hunger strikes by several of the 28 defendants - most of them young Muslim men of North African origin who are accused of executing the plot out of allegiance to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda.
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A British court on Wednesday gave police  more time to question 23 people suspected of plotting to blow  up transatlantic airliners.
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A prominent Muslim activist who admitted participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's crown prince was sentenced Friday to the maximum 23 years in prison for illegal business dealings with Libya.
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SANAA, YEMEN - A court in Yemen has sentenced one man to death and 14 others to prison terms of up to 10 years for a series of attacks on foreign targets.
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A Paris court gave 10 suspected Islamic terrorists jail terms of up to 10 years for a plot to bomb Strasbourg&#39;s cathedral and the city&#39;s Christmas market in December 2000, a clerk of the court said.
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A court in Minsk Wednesday hastily sentenced 11 protesters for participating in demonstrations over voting in Belarus last weekend, news agencies said.
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A state security court on Thursday sentenced three Islamic militants to death for their involvement in suicide attacks that killed 34 people at Sinai resorts in 2004.
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Pakistani security forces killed 23 Taliban fighters and lost seven of their own men during clashes on Monday, according to an army officer, while a Taliban spokesman said 17 troopers were captured.
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With relatives looking on, 23 men arrested nearly three years ago in the violent occupation of the Mexican Embassy went on trial Wednesday for the assault, which sparked a diplomatic crisis.
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The Associated Press reports that 11 are already in jail, while 19 are still at large.
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A court in Yemen has sentenced one man to death and 14 others to prison terms for a series of attacks and terrorist plots in 2002, including the bombing of a French oil tanker.
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An explosion at a coal mine in central Kazakhstan killed 23 people and injured three, officials said. Eighty-seven miners were working at the mine early in the Karaganda region town
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Authorities in Uzbekistan have arrested a prominent human rights advocate, a fellow activist said Wednesday, amid an ongoing crackdown on dissidents and government critics in the tightly controlled former Soviet state.