Truth stranger than fiction as Polish author jailed
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A Polish crime writer has been jailed for 25 years after authorities found he had committed a murder that had been described in one of his thrillers, officials said on Wednesday.
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Spanish police on Thursday arrested a right-wing writer and publisher wanted in Austria for denying the existence of the Jewish Holocaust and the use of gas chambers.
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David Pajcin, who helped lead a $6.7 million insider-trading conspiracy, was released Friday afternoon after serving about two years in prison.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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Teresa Borcz Khalifa, a Polish woman kidnapped last month in Iraq, dramatically appeared at a press conference in Warsaw yesterday, but gave few details of her captivity or how she had been freed.
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A court Wednesday convicted an author of directing the killing of a businessman in a crime that bore eerie similarities to a murder he described in a novel three years later.
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Andrzej Krawczyk was arrested on a Warsaw street in 1982 with a backpack containing 1,000 pro-democracy leaflets protesting against martial law and the communist crackdown on the Solidarity trade union.
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A man who made two false bomb  threats so his friend would have time to retrieve her passport  was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 months in prison, officials  said.
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A European investigator says he has proof Poland and other close U.S. allies hosted secret CIA prisons on their soil, and he accused Washington of waging a war against terrorism without rules.
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Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is gambling big.
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A former imam in New York state is jailed after being caught in a sting operation involving a fictional plot.
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Polish prosecutors study claims that Deputy PM Andrzej Lepper demanded sex from a woman employee.
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The author of a best-selling Australian book about the honor killing of a Jordanian woman has admitted she fabricated parts of her supposed true-life story.
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A top opposition politician in ex-Soviet  Belarus was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday in  what he denounced as an attempt to block his drive to make the  ex-Soviet state more democratic.
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A court Tuesday convicted the publisher of a satirical magazine of insulting Polish-born Pope John Paul II and fined him &#36;6,500.
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A man who was part of a gang who attacked a house full of Polish workers is jailed for six years.
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Newspaper editor Jerzy Urban is fined by a Polish court for making fun of Pope John Paul II.