Nigeria confirms state executions
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A Nigerian state official confirms that at least seven people have been executed, despite earlier denials.
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Nigerian President Yar'Adua orders an inquiry into claims that state officials are linked to criminal gangs.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo spoke to his annointed successor live on television on Wednesday in an effort to dispel rumours that Umaru Yar'Adua had died.
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DASS, Nigeria  - An Islamic court in northern Nigeria heard the appeal of a woman challenging a death by stoning sentence for allegedly committing adultery, and the judge said he would issue a verdict in two weeks.
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The state of emergency in the central  Nigerian state of Plateau, imposed six months ago to quell  communal violence which killed hundreds, will be lifted on  Thursday, the federal government said on Tuesday.
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The indiscriminate killing of civilians by death squads and insurgents in Iraq reaches new levels, the UN says.
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NINGI, Nigeria  - A young Nigerian mother  sentenced to death by stoning for having sex outside marriage  was acquitted and discharged by an Islamic appeals court on  Thursday.
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Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed a Saudi man for machine-gunning another Saudi to death, raising to 10 the number of death sentences implemented this year.
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TALLAHASSEE, Florida  - Florida's incoming governor Charlie Crist said on Friday he will halt executions after a medical examiner found that it took a condemned killer 34 minutes to die from a lethal injection because the needles were inserted improperly.
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KANO, Nigeria  - A Nigerian court on Monday ordered the arrests of three of the defendants in a trial over a drug test conducted by Pfizer in 1996 which Nigerian authorities say killed 11 children and left others disabled.
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The Macedonian government confirmed Friday the killing in Iraq of three citizens from the tiny Balkans country.
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo promised to deal &quot;firmly&quot; with kidnappers of foreign oil workers in the Niger Delta after a string of hostage takings and releases in recent days.
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The governing party suspended gubernatorial primaries in at least two of Nigeria's 36 states on Saturday following candidate protests and violent clashes in the West African country, government officials said.
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LIBREVILLE, 19 November (IRIN) - Verdicts in the trial of a group of suspected mercenaries accused of plotting to overthrow the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea will be handed down on 26 November, with two of the suspects facing the death penalty
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TOKYO -- A report says the Japanese government has confirmed that a decapitated body found in Iraq is that of a Japanese man taken hostage by Islamic militants earlier this week.
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BAGHDAD, Nov 7  - The execution of 21 Iraqi policemen after gunmen stormed police stations on Sunday is the latest in a string of bloody attacks on the country`s fledgling security forces.
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A gunbattle between security forces and Islamic militants fighting to create a Taliban-style state in northern Nigeria left 29 people dead, most of them militants, police said Friday.