'Euthanasia' rebellion defeated
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Ministers see off a backbench revolt over a bill which critics claim would legalise euthanasia "by the back door".
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Death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting 438 children with HIV-tainted blood upheld.
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A hospital in the Netherlands &#151; the first nation to permit euthanasia &#151; recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
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'Had not deterred murder' New Jersey's state assembly yesterday voted 44-36 to abolish the death penalty - the first state to do so since Iowa and West Virginia scrapped the punishment in 1965.â¦
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The Peruvian prime minister survives a censure vote in parliament over his handling of a failed uprising.
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A bloody prison uprising ended with Afghan soldiers gunning down four suspected al-Qa&#39;ida fighters after a 10-hour battle inside Kabul&#39;s most notorious jail.
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Dutch doctors have ended the lives of  babies born with disabilities but have not been charged despite  euthanasia being illegal for children, a study said on  Saturday.
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Rebellion over 42-day detention as threat of legal challenge looms
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Proposals to limit the use of tissues taken from living patients have been overthrown.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels announced a resumption of their &quot;freedom struggle&quot; after declaring that a truce arranged by peace broker Norway had collapsed.
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The decision is a victory for free speech and Internet-rights advocates who argued that although the law was well-intentioned, its effects were unconstitutional.
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Portugal's ruling Socialists will use their majority in parliament to legalize abortion after Sunday's referendum on the issue failed because turnout was too low to make it binding.Comment
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A row is brewing over planned new laws which critics claim would allow euthanasia by the back door.
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A 16-year-old cancer patient 's legal fight ended in victory Wednesday when his family's attorneys and social services officials reached an agreement that would allow him to forgo chemotherapy.
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AN Italian court has overnight rejected a request by a paralysed, terminally ill man who wants doctors to take him off life support in a case that has split the predominantly Catholic country, where euthanasia ...Comment
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Libya&#39;s Supreme Court on Wednesday  upheld death sentences on six foreign medics for infecting  Libyan children with HIV, a ruling that paves the way for moves  by Muammar Gaddafi&#39;s government to win their freedom.
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The Kentucky Derby winner was euthanized, ending an extraordinary effort to save his life after a leg injury.