The Netherlands will shut its sole nuclear power plant in 2013 as planned unless parliament decides otherwise, Economic Affairs Minister Laurens Jan Brinkhorst said on Friday. Earlier this week Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot and

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A Croatian general whose flight from an indictment for war crimes threatens to block Zagreb's campaign to join the EU has convictions for crimes in France, a spokeswoman for the chief war crimes prosecutor said

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British businessman Mark Thatcher on Friday denied being part of a web of financiers accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, saying his social contacts were not necessarily business partners. The 51-year-old son of

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President George W. Bush on Friday signed into law legislation to curb class-action lawsuits, part of a broader overhaul of the legal system he hopes to achieve in his second term. It was his first

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Documents released Friday disclosed previously unpublicized allegations of prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan, including mock executions and beatings, that were investigated by the US Army but in some cases dismissed for lack of evidence.

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Another 15 activists were arrested Friday as Nepal marked its annual Democracy Day under emergency rule, with hundreds in detention, severe press censorship, telephones cut and streets flooded with security forces. A transport blockade imposed

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Lebanon's tourism minister resigned on Friday and Syria named a new military intelligence chief amid political turbulence following the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri. Hariri's killing in Beirut on Monday sparked anti-Syrian

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Pro-Russian Chechen forces on Friday killed a top commander of rebels battling Moscow's rule in Chechnya, an army spokesman said. Yunadi Turchayev, who led rebels in central Chechnya and in the capital Grozny for at

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Former Boeing Co Chief Financial Officer Michael Sears was sentenced on Friday to 4 months in prison and a $250,000 fine for his part in illegally recruiting a top Air Force official to the company.

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A parliament member is being shifted from a provincial prison to India's maximum-security one on Friday to put a stop to lavish luxuries he enjoyed behind bars in the lawless state of Bihar, jail officials

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