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President cuts Corby`s sentence by five years

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has cut the sentence of Australian drugs convict Schapelle Leigh Corby by five ...

Gunmen shoot dead jail warden in Pakistan: police

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot dead a senior prison official in Pakistan`s troubled southwestern city of Quetta, ...

Sri Lanka mulls freeing jailed ex-army chief

Sri Lankan authorities are mulling a pardon for jailed former army chief and defeated presidential candidate Sarath ...

13 foreign fugitives nabbed in Philippines in Q1

Philippine authorities have arrested 13 foreign fugitives wanted for various crimes in their home countries in the ...

Two police officers questioned over immigrant-smuggling attempt

Two police officers from the East Lombok resort police command, West Nusa Tenggara, are being questioned over their ...

Democrat Party relieved to be not associated with corruption case

The ruling Democrat Party hailed the verdict of the corruption court here on Friday, which held that Nazaruddin`s ...

Former Democrat's treasurer gets over four years of jail sentence

Former treasurer of Democrat Party Nazaruddin gets four years and ten month of jail sentence for bribery case during ...

Iraq frees last Saddam WMD scientist: minister

The last Iraqi scientist implicated in late dictator Saddam Hussein`s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programme is ...

Militants attack Pakistan jail, over 300 escape

More than 300 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early on Sunday, after it was attacked by Islamist ...

Agusrin taken to penitentiary to begin jail in corruption case

Convicted Bengkulu Governor, Agusrin Maryono Najamuddin, was taken to Cipinang Penitentiary, East Jakarta, on Tuesday ...

Some 49 convicts in corruption-related cases not yet jailed, NGO

Some 49 convicts involved in various corruption cases in Indonesia have not had their sentences carried out, a ...

Lindsay Lohan says club battery claim "one big lie"

Lindsay Lohan, on the comeback trail after being released from formal probation last month, on Monday ...

China artist Ai Weiwei sets up home webcams

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei said Tuesday he had set up four live webcams in his home in a symbolic reference to the ...

UN to replace judge who quit troubled KRouge court

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said he will appoint a replacement for a Swiss judge who quit Cambodia`s Khmer Rouge war ...

Nigeria`s Boko Haram kills 4, robs bank

Suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram killed four people on Friday when they robbed a bank and ...