Pol Pot's number two requests bail
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Pol Pot's right-hand man, Nuon Chea, appeared before Cambodia's "Killing Fields" tribunal on Wednesday to request bail, arguing he was not a flight risk and would not try to influence potential witnesses.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's chief fundraiser was arrested for a second time Tuesday by police investigating whether political honors such as knighthoods and seats in the House of Lords were traded for cash.
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LONDON  - Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher has posted bail for her son Mark, who is accused of involvement in a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, a source close to Thatcher said Wednesday.
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The Thai police sergeant wanted in connection with the murder of two British travellers was yesterday reported to have contacted his superiors and offered to give himself up.
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The Dalai Lama asks China to show clemency in the case of a Tibetan monk accused of bombings.
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HONG KONG - The relatives and political colleagues of a Hong Kong democracy activist jailed in China for soliciting a prostitute yesterday called on the Chinese authorities to release him on medical grounds, a colleague said.
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The American serving a 20-year  jail sentence for fighting with the Taliban asked the U.S.  government on Tuesday to lessen the sentence after it decided  to release a second American captured in Afghanistan.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia's most senior surviving Khmer Rouge leader was arrested and charged with crimes against humanity yesterday - three decades after the regime left 1.7 million people dead through starvation, overwork, and execution.
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With the detention of Pol Pot's former deputy, Cambodia comes a step closer to justice for the victims of the Khmer Rouge
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Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea, Pol Pot's top surviving henchman, was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity on Wednesday by the U.N.-backed "Killing Fields" tribunal.
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A formal request is made for the extradition of an ex-KGB agent accused of poisoning Alexander Litvinenko.
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Thai authorities issued an arrest warrant Thursday for a Canadian who is the subject of a global Interpol manhunt for the alleged sexual abuse of at least a dozen Cambodian and Vietnamese boys, some as young as 6, police said.
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JOHANNESBURG : Mark Thatcher paid two million rand (250,000 euros/ 300,000 dollars) in bail to end a nine-day house arrest imposed after he was charged with bankrolling a coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, a source close to him said.
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John Walker Lindh, serving 20  years in jail for fighting alongside the Taliban, asked the  U.S. government on Tuesday to lessen his sentence after it  decided to release a second American captured in Afghanistan.
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SANTIAGO -- The judge who indicted General Augusto Pinochet on human rights charges and placed him under house arrest has approved bail for the aging former dictator, officials said yesterday. But Pinochet will remain confined to his country estate near Santiago until the Court of Appeals rules on Judge Juan Guzman's $3,500 bail bond order. Prosecution lawyer Eduardo Contreras said ...
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French police were holding a second person for questioning about the loss of billions at bank Societe Generale, a judicial official said Friday.
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Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Two" Nuon Chea is ready to lift the lid on Pol Pot's murderous regime when he appears in court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, a trial judge said on Thursday.