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| Saudi court sentences one to death, 30 to jail for militant attacks | | | A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced one man to death and 30 others to prison terms of up to 30 years for their part in a series of militant attacks against government and foreign targets since 2003, state media reported. The men were part of a group of 50 being tried as a single militant cell and accused of murder and kidnapping, as well as bombing cars, government buildings and foreign residential compounds and plotting to assassinate government officials and attack embassies. Fourteen of them were sentenced on Monday, including the man facing the death penalty, and 13 others given jail terms of four to 30 years. The other 17 were given prison sentences of two to 25 years in a court session on Tuesday, Saudi Press Agency reported. |
| British singer Cliff Richard cancels cathedral performance | |  British singer Cliff Richard, whose house was searched last week by police investigating allegations of a sexual offence involving an underage boy in the 1980s, has cancelled a performance he was due to give next month in Canterbury Cathedral, his spokesman said on Tuesday. Richard, 73, who was in Portugal when the search was carried out, has denyied any wrongdoing. He has stayed at his Portuguese home since the search of the property in Berkshire, southern England, and was due to return to Britain next month. "Sir Cliff was due to perform on 26 September at a charitable event in Canterbury Cathedral but doesn't want the event to be overshadowed by the false allegation and has therefore withdrawn," his spokesman said in a short statement.
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| Missouri racial violence recalls apartheid, U.N. rights chief says | |  Navi Pillay, who is due to step down at the end of the month after six years in the U.N. hotseat, urged U.S. The United States is a freedom-loving country and one thing they should cherish is people's right to protest," Pillay said in a wide-ranging interview in her office along Lake Geneva.
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| Pakistani protesters march on parliament as police stand by | |  By Katharine Houreld and Syed Raza Hassan ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of protesters used a crane and bolt cutters to force their way past a barricade of shipping containers in the Pakistani capital Tuesday as they marched on parliament to try press the prime minister to resign. Thousands of Pakistani riot police and paramilitaries had used the containers and barbed wire to seal the diplomatic and political zone of the capital before the march began. They did not intervene as protesters moved the outermost of a ring of barricades. The protests are led by former international cricketer Imran Khan, head of the country's third-largest political party, and cleric Tahir ul-Qadri, who controls a network of Islamic schools and charities.
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| Missouri racial unrest mounts; U.S. leaders call for calm | |  Law enforcement has made various efforts to soothe angry demonstrators, but police said they had come under heavy gunfire overnight and arrested 31 people despite the deployment of Missouri National Guard troops and the lifting of a curfew to allow protesters to have more freedom to demonstrate. Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat who was traveling to Ferguson on Tuesday, told cable channel MSNBC. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, another Missouri Democrat, said calm was needed to allow federal investigators to evaluate the evidence.
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| S.Arabia opens family courts, first step in wider legal reform | | | By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Tuesday opened new courts focusing on family disputes, the first of a series of specialised tribunals aimed at making the kingdom's legal system faster, more transparent and predictable. Changes to the legal system are seen by analysts as an important step in wider social and economic reforms aimed at reconciling Saudi Arabia's ultra-conservative traditions with the demands of a young population and modern economy. The introduction of specialised courts is one of the most radical changes to a legal system in which judges use their own interpretation of Islamic texts to rule on cases that range from complex commercial disputes to murder. The new courts are the centrepiece of sweeping judicial reforms in Saudi Arabia that were announced by King Abdullah in 2007 but have faced opposition from conservatives who want legal matters to remain under the exclusive control of the clergy. |
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