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| Parents of wrongfully executed teen in China to get $330,000 | | Wednesday, December 31, 2014 4:32 AM | |
| | By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - The parents of a Chinese teenager executed 18 years ago for the rape and murder of a woman he did not commit will get 2.05 million yuan ($330,491) in compensation, a court and his father said on Wednesday. This month, a court exonerated Huugjilt, saying he was wrongly convicted in 1996 of raping and killing a woman in a public restroom. He was executed in the same year. He was 18. Huugjilt is the latest wrongfully convicted death-row inmate exonerated in the past year. ... |
| Chinese man jailed for 13 years for eating tigers | | Wednesday, December 31, 2014 3:35 AM | |
| | BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man has been jailed for 13 years for buying and eating endangered tigers and making wine made out of their blood, state media reported. The man, identified as a rich businessmen surnamed Xu, organised three trips to the southern province of Guangdong last year to buy the tigers, which he then transported to his home region of Guangxi, Xinhua news agency said late on Tuesday. Xu and his accomplices witnessed the killing of three tigers in three deals with the sellers, one of which was killed by an electric shock, the report said. ... |
| Gambia president says flying home after gunfire rocks Banjul | | Wednesday, December 31, 2014 2:06 AM | |
|  BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh said he was returning home from Chad late on Tuesday, after gunfire erupted around the presidential palace in the Gambian capital of Banjul last night. The government denied reports of an attempted coup, but a diplomat said gunmen had attacked Gambia's State House. Although shooting had died down, a senior West African diplomat told Reuters gunmen controlled parts of the capital on Tuesday. Jammeh was abroad, either in France or Dubai, when the violence broke out. ...
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| Cuban open mic protest thwarted after dissidents detained | | Wednesday, December 31, 2014 12:45 AM | |
|  By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban police detained several dissidents on Tuesday and thwarted an unauthorized political protest, dissidents said, in the first major test of U.S. President Barack Obama's policy shift toward normalizing relations with the communist-ruled island. The U.S. State Department condemned the detentions, which marked the most significant crackdown on the opposition since Cuba and the United States agreed on Dec. 17 to restore diplomatic ties and put behind more than five decades of hostility. ...
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| Nine dead in related homicides in western Canada city | | | CALGARY (Reuters) - Nine people have been killed in three related incidents in Edmonton in what police in the western Canadian city said was likely an act of domestic violence and the worst mass murder in nearly 60 years. Eight people were killed, seven in one location and the eighth in another, police said, and a man linked to the crimes committed suicide in a nearby town. Two of the victims were children while four women and two men were also dead in what Rod Knecht, the city's chief of police, called an act of domestic violence. ... |
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