Rebel gets 60 years for hostage-taking
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A Colombian rebel leader was sentenced to 60 years in prison Monday and labeled a terrorist for helping hold three U.S. contractors hostage as part of a decades-long struggle with the Colombian government.
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A federal judge Friday sentenced Abdurahman Alamoudi to the maximum 23-year prison term for illegal dealings with Libya that included his involvement in a complex plot to kill the Saudi ruler.
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A loyalist who confessed to murdering Pat Finucane is sentenced to 22 years imprisonment.
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A prominent Muslim activist who admitted participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's crown prince was sentenced Friday to the maximum 23 years in prison for illegal business dealings with Libya.
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Former Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar is given an eight-year jail term for his role in the 1991 siege of Dubrovnik.
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Loyalist killer Ken Barrett has been sentenced to 22 years in jail for the murder of Catholic solicitor Pat Finucane at his north Belfast home in February 1989.
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A court sentenced an Iraqi woman to death Thursday for her role in an al-Qaida-led triple hotel bombing that killed 60 people in Jordan's worst terror attack ever.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The Colombian government on  Wednesday offered to free 50 jailed guerrillas if Marxist  rebels release the same number of political and military  hostages, some held captive for up to seven years.
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A court has sentenced an independent rights activist and journalist to six years in jail for extortion amid a sweeping government crackdown on dissidents in the tightly controlled ex-Soviet state.
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The highest-ranking jailed member of Colombia's main guerrilla group was freed by the government Monday as part of a wider prisoner release intended to help secure the freedom of 60 hostages &#151; including three Americans &#151; held by the guerrillas.
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The British leader of a group of 67 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea has been sentenced to seven years in jail.
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Sequestrati beni per un valore di oltre 60 milioni
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.  - A prominent Muslim activist who admitted participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's crown prince was sentenced Friday to the maximum 23 years in prison for illegal business dealings with Libya.
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Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera was convicted yesterday in federal court of helping hold three Americans hostage for years in jungle prison camps. He is the only person ever found responsible for their capture.
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A recently freed rebel leader traveled to Cuba on Monday, a trip officials hope will advance efforts to release 60 hostages, including three U.S. military contractors.
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The South Korean kidnapping brings to 60 the number of people taken in one Afghan province since April.
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A Turkish court sentenced seven  people, including a Syrian al Qaeda militant, to life in prison  on Friday for suicide bomb attacks on Jewish and British  targets in Istanbul which killed more than 60 people in 2003.