Panama Revokes Connery's Passport
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Sean Connery says Panama's decision to revoke his diplomatic passport has unleashed a wave of unfair criticism on the Internet and in newspapers around the world.
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Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's extradition to France was stayed Wednesday. He was convicted in absentia in France on money laundering charges. The appeal centers on whether Noriega will be classed as a prisoner of war.
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A federal judge is due to rule today on whether former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega should be returned to Panama or extradited to France.
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Adonal Foyle has spent many frustrating moments in airports explaining the legitimacy of his passport from tiny Canouan, in the cluster of Caribbean islands called St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Sometimes he pulls out maps to show his homeland &#151; all 5 square miles of it &#151; does indeed exist. He'll no longer have to hassle.
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Cuba cut diplomatic ties with Panama on Thursday after its outgoing leader pardoned four Cuban exiles who plotted to kill President Fidel Castro in 2000.
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LOS ANGELES -- Former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega will be extradited to France to serve a 10-year money-laundering sentence upon his release from federal jail in Florida this fall, according to US Justice Department papers filed in court yesterday. France convicted and sentenced Noriega in absentia in 1999. He was charged with unlawfully depositing millions in drug money in several ...
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A businessman whose alleged ties to Russian mafia groups fueled the ouster of Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas will get his Russian passport back, a court ruled Thursday.
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Cuba condemned the decision by outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso to set free four notorious terrorists of Cuban origin and announced that it was breaking diplomatic relations with the Central American country indefinitely.
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Panama recalled its ambassador from Cuba on Monday after the Cuban government threatened to break off relations in a dispute over four anti-Fidel Castro exiles imprisoned in Panama.
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Panama's president on Thursday pardoned four Cuban emigres accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro despite Havana's threat to cut diplomatic ties over such a move.
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Four Britons released from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay last month have been refused British passports under an obscure law not used in almost 30 years, a lawyer representing two of them said on ...
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Panama's former dictator, Manuel Noriega, can be extradited to France for a money laundering trial after he completes a lengthy jail sentence in Miami next month, a US judge ruled yesterday.
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Panama on Friday withdrew stocks of a medicine used by thousands to treat high blood pressure after investigations linked it to a mystery illness that has killed 19 people.
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The U.S. visa of a Swiss Muslim scholar who was to teach at the University of Notre Dame has been revoked, a State Department spokeswoman said Tuesday, apparently under terms of the Patriot Act.
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The Web site for Panama's National Assembly has been down since January 9, when hackers posted a U.S. flag.
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Venezuela's ambassador to Panama,  Flavio Granados, said late on Friday his country had asked him  to leave Panama after statements made by its leader in the  midst of a diplomatic scandal involving Cuba.
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The UK "expresses concern" to Sri Lanka over a false diplomatic passport issued to ex-rebel leader Col Karuna.