Odumbe handed five-year ban
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Former Kenya captain Maurice Odumbe receives a five-year ban for receiving money to fix a match.
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Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong is jailed for five years, after being convicted in Beijing of spying.
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A South Korean man is jailed for five years for accepting Iraqi bribes to subvert the UN's oil-for-food program.
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Former state House Speaker Jim Black, once one of the most powerful men in North Carolina government, was sentenced Wednesday to more than five years in prison for illegally taking cash from chiropractors while promoting their agenda.
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An Egyptian court sentenced a police major to five years in prison and two policemen to one year for forcing a male detainee to wear women's underwear and parade up and down a busy street, a judicial source said Sunday.
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The National Basketball Association fined Philadelphia 76ers forward Marc Jackson 5,000 dollars for directing an obscenity toward fans at a home game.
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A former Goldman Sachs associate who was accused of masterminding one of the broadest insider-trading conspiracies in years was sentenced to nearly five years in prison.
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Oklahoma State linebacker Chris Collins received a five-year prison sentence Wednesday for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl, but a jury recommended probation instead.
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A court in Bangladesh sentences a former minister to five years jail for possessing alcohol, officials say.
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Newcastle full-back Celestine Babayaro has been banned for three games by the Football Association (FA) after admitting a charge of violent conduct.
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The Prime Minister overthrown in last year's coup and the leadership of his party are banned from politics for five years
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Jason Perryman was slapped with a USD2382 fine and a five-year ban from appearing in a football ground by a British court. He was found guilty of racially aggravated public order offence for his acts in a football match between Birmingham and Blackburn.
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Zimbabwe have rescinded a ban on British journalists wanting to cover a five-match cricket tour by England, a senior official at the department of information and publicity said on Thursday.
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A SOCCER fan was fined $2400 and banned from soccer grounds for the maximum five years yesterday when he pleaded guilty to racially abusing Birmingham City striker Dwight Yorke.
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A French court gives a five-year suspended jail term to ex-mercenary Bob Denard for a Comoros coup plot.
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A Turkish professor faces five years in jail if found guilty of insulting Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.
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A court in Mali convicted five journalists and a teacher on Tuesday for insulting President Amadou Toumani Toure over a high school essay assignment on the sexual indiscretions of an imaginary head of state.