Swiss court convicts Turkish politician
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A prominent Turkish politician was convicted Friday of breaching Swiss anti-racism laws by saying that the early 20th-century killing of Armenians could not be described as genocide. The Turkish foreign ministry reacted swiftly to the decision, saying in a statement that it was saddened by the Swiss court's ruling to punish Dogu Perincek, leader of the Turkish Workers' Party, and to ignore "his freedom of expression."
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A court in Palermo convicted Sicily's governor Friday of helping a Mafia boss and sentenced him to five years in prison.
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A court on Friday convicted a man who tried to shoot French President Jacques Chirac during a national Bastille Day parade in 2002 and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
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Ex-Bosnian Serb politician Radoslav Brdjanin is jailed for 32 years for war crimes, but cleared of genocide.
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An Israeli court convicted Haim Roman, a former justice minister, today on charges that, while in office, he forcibly kissed a young female soldier.
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A Turkish judge acquitted a prominent  author on Thursday in a case seen as a fresh test of freedom of  expression in the European Union candidate nation.
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The nationalist Swiss People's Party received the highest vote ever recorded for an individual political party in Switzerland after a bitter campaign blaming foreigners for much of the country's crime, ... via Guardian Unlimited
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A Turkish judge acquitted a prominent   author on Thursday in a case seen as a fresh test of freedom of   expression in the European Union candidate nation.
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A Turkish court has acquitted prize-winning author Elif Shafak in a trial over a book about the massacres of Armenians during World War I, saving the government from fresh embarrassment in its ties with the European Union.
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A U.S. jury on Monday found a former Credit Suisse Group  investment banker guilty of insider trading and conspiracy.
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One of Turkey's leading authors was acquitted Thursday of "insulting Turkishness" &#151; a crime Western-looking Turks view as an embarrassment and one of the biggest obstacles to joining the European Union.
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Newspapers in Turkey welcome the acquittal of the novelist Elif Shafak.
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A former Rwandan officer is found guilty of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers during the 1994 genocide.
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ANKARA, Turkey -- A devout Muslim with a background in political Islam won the Turkish presidency on Tuesday, in a major triumph for the Islamic-rooted government after months of confrontation with the secular establishment.
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TDN- Finally the Turkish Parliament, with the blessings of our benevolent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, convened on Sunday and eradicated a major thorn in Turkey&#39;s relations with the
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A Syrian criminal court on Monday convicted a political activist of insulting the regime and contacting "hostile parties," sentencing him 18 months in jail, a human rights group said.
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The nationalist Swiss People's Party received the highest vote ever recorded for an individual political party in Switzerland after a bitter campaign blaming foreigners for much of the country's crime