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BBC News
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China's Supreme Court has ordered judges to be more sparing in the imposition of the death penalty.
An order on its website said execution should be reserved for "an extremely small number of serious offenders".
It said the death penalty should be w..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's Supreme Court is to rule on whether a government amnesty lifting corruption charges against former PM Benazir Bhutto is legal.
The amnesty was one of Ms Bhutto's conditions for her return to Pakistan next Thursday ahead of a possible power s..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's Supreme Court says President Pervez Musharraf can stand for election next week despite still being head of the country's army.
It dismissed a number of legal challenges to his right to hold both posts at the same time.
Gen Musharraf regis..
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CNN
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Libya's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS virus. But the verdict may not be the final word in the case. Libya's Supreme Judicial Counc..
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Al Jazeera
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Tariq Mehmood, a lawyer for Chaudhry, said: "The Supreme Court has stayed the proceedings of the Supreme Judicial Council and has recommended the setting up of a full bench to hear the chief justice's petition."
Constitutional deadlockFacing charges o..
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CNN
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Pakistani police used rubber bullets and tear gas to subdue a crowd gathered at the Supreme Court house in Islamabad shortly after the country's top judge arrived for a controversial court hearing, police and witnesses told CNN.
In anticipation of Paki..
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