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| Capital punishment revived |
| Lanka breaks 30-year lull after judge killing |
| Sri Lanka today reactivated its dormant death penalty 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.
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| Death penalty for scribe killer |
| An Afghan man accused of killing four journalists in 2001, including two from Reuters, was found guilty today and sentenced to death after saying his gang was acting on the o
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| Staff backs Annan |
| The UN staff union, representing over 5,000 employees, has strongly criticised the senior management of the world body for exonerating top investigator Dileep Nair of Singapo
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| UN rejects drive to ban cloning |
| A divided United Nations yesterday rejected a US-led campaign to ban all cloning of human embryos, including for stem-cell research, as a General Assembly committee opted ins
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Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres (right) and actor Denise Richards with a squirrel monkey at NBC Studios in Burbank, California. (Reuters) |
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