'Chessboard Killer' Convicted of Murdering 48 in Moscow
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MOSCOW, Oct. 24 -- A Russian man known as the "Chessboard Killer" because he wanted to commit a murder for each of the 64 squares on the chessboard was convicted Wednesday of killing 48 people, most of them in a Moscow park.
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The Russian supermarket worker found guilty of murdering 48 people told his trial on Thursday he felt like God as he decided if his victims should live or die.
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Four soldiers were convicted Thursday of killing a truck driver and five passengers in Chechnya, but three of the defendants have been missing since disappearing while on trial.
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A British court found four men guilty Monday over a failed Islamist plot to set off bombs in London on July 21, 2005, two weeks after suicide bombings which killed 52 commuters in the capital.
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A Russian court convicted a Siberian  scientist of spying at a retrial on Friday, overturning his  earlier acquittal that had sparked the anger of the FSB state  security forces.
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Russia will try ex-KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi for the murder in London of fugitive Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko if Britain provides sufficient evidence of his guilt, news agencies quoted Prosecutor General Yury Chaika as saying Friday.
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The youngest Canadian to face a death sentence is acquitted 48 years after he was sentenced for rape and murder.
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MOSCOW -- Karina Moskalenko spent a sleepless night in Strasbourg, France, last month writing and rewriting a petition to the European Court of Human Rights for Garry Kasparov, the chess champion and anti-Kremlin activist who was briefly arrested in connection with a demonstration here in April that...
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A court Thursday handed out a prison sentence to a man accused of involvement to the 1998 murder of a liberal Russian lawmaker but set another convict free.
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A Moscow court found former supermarket  worker, Alexander Pichushkin, guilty on Wednesday of the first  of 49 murder charges against him, a Reuters reporter inside the  courtroom said.
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A Moscow jury convicted a man of 48 murders that he recorded on a chessboard, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday.
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A man who injured nine people in a knife attack at a Moscow synagogue was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a second trial, Russian news agencies reported.
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A former boxer who pledged to "kill all black people" is convicted of attempting to murder two people.
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BERLIN: An alleged lieutenant of Carlos the Jackal, legendary international terrorist mastermind through two decades, was acquitted yesterday of murder and bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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Russia's ex-atomic energy minister Yevgeny Adamov is found guilty of embezzling budget funds.
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MADRID - A Spanish court yesterday convicted 21 men in the 2004 bombings of Madrid's train system, but acquitted an Egyptian national whom authorities once touted as the mastermind.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders, which he recorded on a chessboard, to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killing cases