Last of 'Jena 6' could be freed today
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A judge could order as early as Friday that the sole defendant who remains behind bars from the group of teens known as the "Jena 6" must be released.
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A decision on freedom for triple police killer Harry Roberts could be made by the end of the year, it is claimed.
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A Louisiana appeals court ruled it was too early to consider a motion to release an black teenager who allegedly took part in beating up a white classmate in Jena, Louisiana, last year.
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An appeals court Friday vacated the remaining conviction of a teenager accused in a violent, racially charged incident in Jena, Louisiana, his attorney said. Mychal Bell and five others were initially charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit attempted murder in connection with the beating of a white student.
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KABUL, Nov 7 - Kidnappers who have threatened to kill three UN workers in Afghanistan have agreed to give the government until Tuesday to find and release 26 Taliban prisoners, a spokesman for the kidnappers said on Sunday.
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Jonathan King hopes to be freed from prison within weeks, after serving less than half his seven-year sentence for sexual abuse.
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A lawmaker said Tuesday he will press the government for the release of a black teenager held in the Louisiana "Jena 6" case
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The United States will release the last four Britons held as terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay "in the next few weeks," Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told MPs.
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JENA, La.  -- Thousands are expected in this tiny central Louisiana town Thursday to protest the treatment of six black teenagers arrested in the beating of a white classmate -- and they will march past the stump of a tree that became the focal point of the current racial tensions.
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BAGHDAD : The threat of death hung over a Briton and two American hostages as a 48-hour deadline set by their militant captors for the US-led coalition to free all Iraqi female detainees ran out.
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A star running back and five black classmates in Jena, Louisiana, were arrested on attempted murder and conspiracy charges after a fight last year left a white student beaten and bloodied. Many say the incident might not have happened if not for the nooses.
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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor imprisoned in Libya eight years ago and sentenced to die for infecting hundreds of children with HIV may know this week whether they are to go free.
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The last Britons held at the US jail for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay are expected to return home within hours, finally bringing to an end a saga that has badly strained usually close Anglo-US relations.
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Prosecutors on Tuesday reduced the attempted murder charges against two more teenagers among the "Jena Six," a group of black high school students who were arrested following an attack on a white schoolmate.
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Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq could be freed by the end of this week if U.S. forces open a security corridor to secure their release, an aide to a French mediator told Reuters on Wednesday.
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The last four Britons freed from the  U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are to be reunited with  their families on Wednesday after British police released them  without charge.
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The case of Edgar Ray Killen embodies an archetype on the verge of extinction. It will likely be one of the last of its kind: the blockbuster southern murder trial looking back to the civil rights era.