High court judge shot dead in Sri Lanka&#39;s capital? (updated AM 10 ...
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A high court judge who took a tough stand against Tamil Tiger rebels was fatally shot outside his home in Sri Lanka&#39;s capital, as the government questioned the guerrillas&#39; commitment to efforts to end the island&#39;s civil war.
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A Greek police officer guarding a British diplomat&#39;s home in Athens has been shot dead. Haralambos Amanatidis, 32, was found dead in his sentry box after a dawn attack on Friday in the suburb of Kifissia, police said.
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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim cleric has been shot dead in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Mufti Mohammed Jamil was reported to have been on his way home when two gunmen on a motorcycle stopped his car and opened fire with automatic weapons.
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Gunmen assassinated a judge as he headed to work in Baghdad on Monday, while to the north, a booby-trapped house exploded as Iraqi police searched the building, killing at least two officers and trapping five beneath the rubble, authorities said.
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Saudi Arabia&#39;s highest religious authority on Wednesday condemned as a sin the deadly shooting rampage at a US consulate, and local newspapers reported one of the slain assailants was a former employee of the nation&#39;s
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A French national was shot and killed in the Saudi Arabian city of Jiddah early Sunday, the Interior Ministry said. The man was shot at 1 am in the Red Sea port city.
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At least two people have been killed and 18 others injured at Indian singer SHAHRUKH KHAN&#39;s concert in Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Saturday (11DEC04).
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A gunman shoots dead a former mayor at a court hearing in the Philippine capital, Manila.
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A leading Tamil opposition MP is Sri Lankan is shot dead at a Hindu temple in the capital Colombo, officials say.
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&#39;Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga has seized on the murder of a high court judge last Friday as the pretext to reactivate the death penalty for the crimes of murder, rape and drug dealing.
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A court in Afghan capital sentenced to death a killer of four journalists Saturday, a spokesman of Afghan Supreme Court said. &quot;The verdict was issued after the killer, Riza Khan
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Government minister killed by roadside bomb near Colombo, according to the country's military
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Iraqi police have said the drive-by shooting that killed Hatem Karim occurred in the southern Dora district of the Iraqi capital. The killing is the latest in a series of attacks targeting officials linked to Iraq&#39;s US-backed interim government.
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Gunmen riding a motorcycle fatally shot a judge Friday when his car stopped at a traffic light, the most senior government figure to be killed in a Muslim separatist movement in southern Thailand, officials said.
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A Sri Lankan judge has sentenced two men to death for murdering a tsunami victim in the coastal town of Galle.
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka stepped up security in the capital Colombo on Saturday as police launched an investigation into the slaying of a judge and his bodyguard, officials said.
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Sri Lanka reactivated its dormant death  penalty Saturday for murder, rape and drug trafficking after a  near 30-year lull, the government said, a day after a high  court judge was murdered in the capital.