UN workers face execution
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Taliban-linked militants have threatened to execute three foreign UN workers kidnapped in Kabul unless British troops withdraw from Afghanistan and Afghan prisoners are freed from US custody in Guantanamo Bay.
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BAGHDAD -- Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein were found guilty yesterday of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the slaughter of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.
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A United Nations human rights body called on Iran on Friday to abolish the death penalty as well as amputation, flogging and stoning for people who committed crimes as minors.
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KABUL - The militant group holding three foreign UN workers captive in Afghanistan extended an ultimatum for their threatened execution on Wednesday but gave conflicting versions of a new deadline.
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Six suspects accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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Six foreign medics face execution by firing squad or hanging after being convicted by a Libyan court of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.
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KABUL Militants holding three foreign United Nations staff members in Afghanistan released a video Sunday of their hostages and said they would be killed if demands for release of prisoners and withdrawal of foreign troops were not met by noon Wednesday.
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The indiscriminate killing of civilians by death squads and insurgents in Iraq reaches new levels, the UN says.
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MILITANTS holding the British aid worker Annetta Flanigan and two United Nations colleagues in Afghanistan have threatened to kill them within three days unless British troops and the UN quit the country.
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UN officials are in Cambodia to discuss funding for a tribunal to bring to justice leaders of the bloody Khmer Rouge.
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A militant group claiming responsibility for kidnapping three foreign UN workers said Saturday it will execute them unless Britain withdraws its troops from Afghanistan and two other governments stop supporting US policy here.
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Militants holding three foreign United Nations workers in Afghanistan have threatened to kill them by Wednesday (November 3) if the government does not convince the United States to release all Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners.
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KABUL : The deadline set by a Taliban splinter group to execute three foreign UN election workers it claims to be holding captive passed overnight with no word on their fate.
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Three Indonesian Christians sentenced to death for attacks against Muslims in 2000 are executed.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called  at an emotional tribute on Thursday for the prosecution of  those behind the "cold-blooded murder" of 22 people at the  United Nations office in Baghdad one year ago.
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Militants holding three foreign UN staff members in Afghanistan released a videotape Sunday showing their hostages, and they said the three would be killed if demands
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Human Rights Watch says fighters in the DR Congo are committing rape and murder and the UN is "slow" to react.