Top novelist acquitted in Turkey
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An Istanbul court acquits Turkish novelist Elif Safak,  who was accused of insulting "Turkishness".
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Nobel-prize winning Turkish novelist  Orhan Pamuk has canceled a trip to Germany at short notice, his  German publisher said on Wednesday, as concerns for his  personal security grow.
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The prosecution drops its case against Turkish novelist Elif Safak,  who was accused of insulting "Turkishness".
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The High Court of Zimbabwe here on Friday announced that the leader of the main opposition party, Morgan Tsvangirai, is acquitted of accusation of planning to kill President Robert Mugabe.
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A US soldier is acquitted of ordering an Iraqi to his death in the River Tigris but convicted on lesser charges.
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HAMISH ROBERTSON: The Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has been acquitted of attempting to bribe a judge after a marathon court case that&#39;s divided the nation.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey - An Islamic militant facing treason charges denied allegations at the opening of his trial Monday that he masterminded a failed plot to crash an airplane into the mausoleum of the founder of secular Turkey.
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Five have convictions quashed after judges conclude that reading Islamist material was not illegal
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An Iranian woman at the centre of in a notorious murder case is pardoned by her victim's family.
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An Indonesian court on Thursday acquitted two prominent reporters of libeling a wealthy businessman, the conclusion of a closely watched cased that is likely to encourage Indonesia&#39;s embattled press.
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ISTANBUL -- One of Turkey's leading authors was acquitted yesterday of ``insulting Turkishness" -- a crime Western-looking Turks view as an embarrassment and one of the biggest obstacles to joining the European Union.
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An Upper East Side landlord who pleaded self-defense in the stabbing death of his wife during an argument in their kitchen was acquitted today by a jury in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
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A lawyer for best-selling novelist Orhan  Pamuk chided Turkey's justice minister on Friday for suggesting  his client was to blame for the controversy surrounding an  article of the penal code blasted by the EU.
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A wealthy landlord who admits he fatally stabbed his wife during a fight was acquitted of murdering her.
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An Italian military court on Monday acquitted an 87-year-old former lieutenant in the German army of charges stemming from the 1944 World War II massacre of 48 civilians in a small town in Tuscany, Italian news agencies reported.
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An Ethiopian court found exiled  former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam guilty in absentia of  genocide on Tuesday, ending a 12-year trial.
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A political science professor was convicted Monday of insulting the revered founder of modern Turkey and given a 15-month suspended prison sentence, a news report said.