Afghan 'blasphemer' faces death
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A journalist in Afghanistan is sentenced to death for distributing blasphemous material.
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A HARDLINE faction of the Taliban that claims to be holding Annetta Flanigan, a hostage from Northern Ireland, has threatened to kill her and two other captives if British troops do not pull out of Afghanistan, writes Tom Coghlan in Kabul.
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An Afghan journalist sentenced to death for distributing an article that allegedly violated Islam is actually being punished for reporting by his brother about abuses by northern warlords, a media group said Wednesday.
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer pledged on Tuesday to investigate civilian deaths in Afghanistan, but contrasted NATO's record there with a Taliban who "behead people, burn schools, kill women and children".
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The health of terrorist cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, known as the Blind Sheik, is deteriorating &#151; renewing fears that his death in prison could trigger an attack on the United States, officials said Thursday.
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An former Soviet army soldier whose relatives were told he died a hero in the Afghan war nearly two decades ago &#151; and were given a coffin to bury &#151; appeared in an Uzbek courtroom Tuesday accused of membership in an al-Qaida-allied terrorist group.
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KUWAIT CITY -- The alleged ringleader of an anti-American terrorist group died of heart failure nine days after he was detained, the government said yesterday, raising questions over whether he was tortured.
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The fate of the first detainee to die of natural causes at the U.S. prison in GuantÃ¡namo Bay reveals the problem of military tribunals, Afghans say.
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The health of a blind radical Muslim cleric jailed for life in 1996 on terror charges is worsening, officials say.
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A provincial governor said Monday he had warned an anti-Taliban militia leader targeted in Afghanistan's deadliest suicide attack since the 2001 invasion that militants were trying to kill him. The death toll rose to more than 100.
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A Royal Marine has died in Afghanistan after his unit came under fire, the Ministry of Defence says.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday she will raise with Afghanistan's U.S.-backed president the case of an Afghan reporter sentenced to death for insulting Islam, a case that has not drawn the same wide U.S. outrage or administration intervention as one involving a Muslim condemned to death for converting to Christianity.
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KABUL - An Islamist group that claims responsibility for kidnapping three foreigners in Afghanistan said on Friday it would execute the hostages unless authorities called off their massive manhunt for the kidnappers.
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LONDON  - Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri appeared in court Tuesday charged with urging followers to kill non-Muslims.
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A death sentence handed to a reporter in Afghanistan has prompted the United Nations and several press freedom organizations to urge the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, to intervene in the case.
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An Afghan court sentenced a man to death Saturday for the 2001 killing of three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague who were pulled from their cars, robbed and shot as they rushed to cover the collapse of the Taliban.
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A soldier has been killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, says the Ministry of Defence.