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The Austrian who reportedly admitted holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering seven children with her will plead insanity, his lawyer said. Attorney Rudolf Mayer said he believed 73-year-old Josef Fritzl had a mental disorder, The Associate..
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CNN
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A Yemeni judge dissolved the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a man nearly four times her age, and the girl's lawyer said Wednesday that the court also ordered the youngster removed from the control of the father who forced her into the wedding.
The l..
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MSNBC
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A package bearing homemade bombs blew up Thursday in a lawyer’s office on a stylish boulevard in central Paris, killing the woman who opened it. The motive for the unusual attack remained unclear.
The building also housed an unrelated law firm co-fou..
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CNN
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A Russian court sentenced an American man to nine years in prison Tuesday for strangling his wife's uncle in a fight that broke out over an apartment, his lawyer said.
The Industrial Federal Court in the far eastern city of Khabarovsk handed down the s..
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CNN
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An American man accused of raping his daughter and posting the videos on the Internet has agreed to be extradited from Hong Kong to the United States, his lawyer said Monday. Kenneth John Freeman, a former reserve sheriff's deputy on the U.S. Marshals Ser..
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TWO Sudanese women were sentenced to death by stoning for adultery after a trial in which they had no lawyer and which used Arabic, not their first language, the rights group Amnesty International said.
Sadia Idriss Fadul was sentenced on February 13 a..
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BBC News
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A lawyer for the Austrian man who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years has said experts must decide if he can be deemed responsible for his actions.
Josef Fritzl has confessed to fathering seven children with his daughter, Elisabeth, six of whom..
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MSNBC
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Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf will give up his post of army chief if he is re-elected president and will be sworn in for a new term as a civilian, his lawyer told the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The promise to stand down as army chief removes a..
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BBC News
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Members of Italy's Jewish community have been protesting outside a lawyer's office in Rome where a former Nazi officer has begun work.
Shouts of "Murderer!" greeted Erich Priebke, 93, as he arrived for his first day on the back of a scooter.
A court..
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MSNBC
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Saddam Hussein urged Iraqis on Sunday to reject the sectarian violence ripping his country apart and to "not take revenge" on U.S. invaders, his chief lawyer said after the ousted leader was sentenced to death...
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