Ethiopia pardons 38 opposition members
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Ethiopia has pardoned 38 opposition politicians and activists sentenced to various prison terms, including life, for inciting violence in an attempt to overthrow the government, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said.
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Ethiopia&#39;s high court on Monday sentenced 35 opposition leaders to life imprisonment for inciting rebellion, after the prosecution had asked for the death penalty.
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The United Nations evacuated 38 foreign employees from this western Afghan city Monday after a day of rioting by supporters of the ousted governor turned
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Ethiopia on Friday freed 38  opposition members sentenced to jail this week for treason,  inciting violence and trying to overthrow the government, Prime  Minister Meles Zenawi said.
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Sudanese authorities have arrested 14 members of an opposition Islamist party for plotting sabotage after soliciting help from abroad, party officials and security sources said on Wednesday.
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Ethiopian rebels on Sunday claimed they had killed at least 140 government troops in an attack in the Ogaden region, where the army is carrying out a crackdown.
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A group of 38 Ethiopian opposition leaders found guilty of links to violent election protests is to be sentenced.
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Jordan's King Abdullah II on Saturday pardoned two Islamist lawmakers who had been convicted of stirring sectarian strife for their praise of the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Libya commemorated 38 years of Moamer Kadhafi&#39;s rule on Saturday amid signs the north African nation is cautiously embarking on domestic reform to complement its rapprochment with the West.
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Ethiopia has reduced its child mortality rate by 40 percent over the last 15 years, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday.
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Myanmar's junta has freed 87 more people arrested during last month's crackdown, including more than 50 members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), party spokesman Nyan Win said.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  -- An Ethiopian dictator known as "the butcher of Addis Ababa" was convicted Tuesday of genocide in a rare case of an African strongman being held to account by his own country.
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YANGON, Myanmar  - Myanmar's junta freed at least  two dozen members of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi's  political party Friday during a mass release of 4,000 people  detained "inappropriately" by the intelligence machine purged  last month.
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Bahrain&#39;s king pardoned a human rights activist who convicted of inciting hatred of the government and sentenced to one year in prison Sunday in a case linked to criticism of the prime minister.
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Thirty Ethiopian opposition leaders sentenced to life in prison over election protests are pardoned.
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An Ethiopian court convicts two anti-poverty activists of inciting violence after disputed polls in 2005.
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An Ethiopian court is due to deliver its sentence on 38 opposition leaders, who face the death penalty.