Chinese Official Sentenced to Death
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An official once in charge of guarding cultural relics has been sentenced to death in China's biggest antiquities theft case since the start of communist rule in 1949.
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Two death sentences for corrupt senior officials were announced in China on Tuesday as President Hu Jintao lamented the difficulty of fighting graft, state press said.
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A Chinese court sentenced the founder  of the country's largest pornography Web site to life  imprisonment on Wednesday and jailed another eight of the  site's organizers, state media reported.
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A Moroccan man is sentenced to death for murdering a European Union advisor and his wife in their Rabat home.
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An Indian court sentenced a former cabinet minister to life behind bars for conspiracy in the abduction and murder of an aide, reports said.
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A former military prosecutor in the Democratic of Congo is sentenced to death by a military court for murder.
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Former Indian cabinet minister Shibu Soren is given a life term for murdering his aide.
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A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for conning people out of 3 billion yuan ($387 million) in a giant scam to breed ants, local media said on Thursday.
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China sentenced a man to death and jailed another 28 people for up to life on Tuesday for their roles in a massive slavery and child labor scandal involving scorching brickworks.
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Two senior Chinese officials in Hong Kong are given long jail terms after being convicted of spying for the UK.
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China sentenced a former top drug safety official to death and disclosed an investigation into cellphone batteries after one reportedly exploded, killing a man.
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An Indian soldier is sentenced to death for killing his superior in Indian-administered Kashmir last year.
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An Afghan court sentences to death three men for killing 11 Chinese road workers in Kunduz in June.
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A PAKISTANI military court has sentenced one soldier to death and another to 10 years hard labour in jail for involvement in an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf last year.
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China sentenced a former senior   provincial official to 11 years in jail for taking bribes,   state media reported on Tuesday, adding to the toll of cadres   punished in the Communist Party's anti-corruption drive.
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A Chinese health official once hailed  as a hero for his work in fighting the spread of SARS has been  jailed for life for taking "huge" bribes from vaccine  distributors, state media said on Saturday.
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A former policeman who killed his terminally ill wife in an abortive suicide pact is given a suspended sentence.