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China rejects Canadian drug smuggler's death sentence appeal

A Chinese court on Tuesday rejected a Canadian drug smuggler's appeal against his death sentence.Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian national convicted of smuggling over 222 kilograms of methamphet

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Ex-police officer Chauvin to be sentenced on June 16 in Floyd case

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted this week of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd during an arrest last year, will be sentenced on June 16, the Minnesot

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Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff dies in prison: AP

Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff has died at the age of 82 in a federal prison, believed to be from natural causes, AP reported.Madoff was arrested in December 2008 for running a multi-billion-dollar Ponz

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Joshua Wong jailed for 4 months for joining unauthorized rally

Joshua Wong Chi-fung, an instigator of the Hong Kong riots, has been handed another prison sentence for four months for joining an unauthorized rally and flouting a mas

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Court to weigh reinstating Boston marathon bomber's death sentence

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the U.S. Justice Department's bid to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack that

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HK Scholar: China is full of opportunities for Hong Kong youths

04:08 Enoch Wong, a Schwarzman scholar at Tsinghua, says democracy was not handed to Hong Kong by the British Empire but delivered by the Chinese Central Government. "B

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"Finding Yingying": New documentary honors Chinese scholar's life

03:43 The disappearance of Chinese scholar Zhang Yingying in 2017 made international headlines.The search for Zhang and her family's fight for justice ended in a court decision not to

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Pakistan court annuls Musharaff's death sentence: report

A Pakistan court Monday annulled the death sentence handed to ex-President Pervez Musharraf, ruling that the special court, which had found him guilty of treason last year, was unconstitutional, the

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South African court dismisses Pistorius appeal

LegalexpertssayOlympianOscarPistoriushasfinallyrunoutofoptionstoappealhis13-yearprisonsentenceforthemurderofReevaSteenkamp.SouthAfrica'shighestcourtdismissedPis

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French rapper sentenced for blocking motorway

FrenchrapstarSofianereceivedafour-monthsuspendedjailsentenceonMondayforblockingamotorwaynearParislastyeartofilmthevideoforhishitsong"Toka".Watched32milliontimes

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S. African court doubles Pistorius sentence to more than 13 years

ASouthAfricanappealscourtincreasedparalympicchampionOscarPistorius'sentenceformurderinghisgirlfriendReevaSteenkampto13yearsandfivemonthsonFriday.TheSupremeCourt

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South Africa's court to hear state's appeal against Blade Runner in Nov.

SouthAfrica’sSupremeCourtofAppeal(SCA)willhearthestate’sappealagainstthesix-yearmurdersentencehandedtoParalympicgoldmedallistOscarPistoriusonNov.3,theNationalPr

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Egypt court upholds life sentence for Morsi over spying for Qatar

AnEgyptiancourtonSaturdayupheldlifesentenceagainsttheoustedpresidentMohamedMorsioverchargesofspyingforQatar,State-runNileTVreported.LifesentenceinEgyptis25years

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Google’s Transformer solves a tricky problem in machine translation

Machinelearninghasturnedouttobeaveryusefultoolfortranslation,butithasafewweakspots.Thetendencyoftranslationmodelstodotheirworkwordbywordisoneofthose,andcanleadt

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Egypt sentences 12 Brotherhood members to death over violence allegation

AnEgyptiancourtonTuesdaysentenced12membersoftheoutlawedMuslimBrotherhoodgrouptodeathoverbreakingintoapolicestation,officialnewsagencyMENAreported.Thedefendantsw

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Spain' s Supreme Court confirms Messi fraud sentence

Spain'sSupremeCourthasconfirmedonWednesdayLionelMessi'sfraudsentenceupholdingthe21-monthjailtermfortheFCBarcelonaplayerandatwo-millioneurofine,judicialsourcesre

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Former IBM Chinese employee pleads guilty in US over code theft

AChineseengineerandformeremployeeoftheIBMCorporation,facesaheavysentenceforeconomicespionageandtheftofatradesecret,accordingtotheUSDepartmentofJustice.XuJiaqian