Jordan's king pardons 2 Islamist MPs
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Jordan's King Abdullah II on Saturday pardoned two Islamist lawmakers who had been convicted of stirring sectarian strife for their praise of the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Lawmakers loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Tuesday they are ending a nearly five-week boycott of parliament sessions after officials accepted their demands for rebuilding a Shiite shrine damaged by bombings.
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King Abdullah of Jordan has stripped his half-brother and heir apparent of his title as crown prince on Sunday. King Abdullah announced at the state television on Sunday that the move was aimed at allowing
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AMMAN - Jordanâs King Abdullah relieved his half brother Prince Hamza of his duties as crown prince, royal palace sources said on Sunday.
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A Muslim cleric named by the British government as a key influence on one of four men who carried out the deadly London transport bombings in 2005 was deported to Jamaica Friday after being released from prison.
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Pakistan's upper house of parliament, the Senate, passed a bill curtailing the scope of Islamic laws on rape on Thursday, paving the way for President Pervez Musharraf to sign it into law.
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Jordan&#39;s King Abdullah II stripped his half-brother, Prince Hamzeh al-Hussein, of the title of crown prince, in a letter read out on Jordanian television.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo pardoned her ousted predecessor Thursday, paving the way for Joseph Estrada's release a month after he was sentenced to life in prison for corruption
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A Jordanian military court has acquitted 10 nationals and three Saudis on charges of a conspiracy to launch &quot;terror attacks&quot; on US targets in and around capital Amman .
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Jordan's military court sentenced two militants Wednesday to jail with hard labor for plotting to attack Americans living in the kingdom.
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Jordan&#39;s military court on Monday acquitted 13 men, including three Saudi fugitives, of conspiring to carry out attacks against American interests in the kingdom, but sentenced 11 of them to prison terms ranging from six to 15 years for possessing
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The British Parliament's lower house on Monday suspended a lawmaker accused of concealing his financial dealings with Saddam Hussein's government.
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Two convicted terrorists who had been freed in an amnesty carried out the suicide bombings at U.N. and government buildings that killed 37 people, an Algerian security official said Thursday
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A Slovenian presidential envoy jailed for spying in Sudan is given a presidential pardon.
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BAGHDAD, July 17 -- The political bloc of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ended its month-long boycott of the Iraqi parliament, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday, a political advance amid sectarian violence that included the slaying of 29 Shiites overnight by men dressed in military uniforms.
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Two Muslims charged over the 2002 train attack on Hindu pilgrims that sparked religious riots in Gujarat are freed.
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LONDON -- A British court ruled yesterday that Abu Qatada, a radical Islamic cleric believed to have close links to Al Qaeda, faces no risk of abuse if sent to Jordan, opening the way for his deportation.