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The Special Court for Sierra Leone today handed a 50-year jail term to Liberia’s ex-president Charles Taylor, Reuters reports.
On April 26, Taylor was found guilty on all counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prosecutors demanded that the former Liberian ruler be sentenced to 80 years.
Out of security concerns, the trial was shifted from the court headquarters in Sierra Leone’s Freetown to The Netherlands.
Taylor is now to serve his jail term in a UK prison.
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Two men were arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft on Friday after a U.K. fighter jet was scrambled to divert their plane as it traveled from Pakistan to Britain. Mark Weiss, a retired airline pilot and Head of Civil Aviation Team of the Spectrum Consulting Group based in Washington DC, gave an interview to the Voice of Russia.
The Stockholm fire brigade has tackled fires at least two schools as rioting in suburbs of the Swedish capital continued for a fifth night. Firefighters also dealt with fires in 15 cars, two containers and a fourth building, the brigade said, while police made eight arrests. But the unrest appeared to be less intense than on other nights. The nightly riots began in a deprived, largely immigrant suburb where police shot a man dead last week.
A law enforcement official says US Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved the warrant that gave the Justice Department access to Fox News reporter James Rosen’s private e-mails.
The National Coalition of Opposition and Revolutionary Forces of Syria does not rule out the possibility of taking part in peace talks in Geneva according to a representative of the insurgents Khaled Khoja. He said that a final decision would be made tomorrow.
US President has said he is determined to close the prison in Guantanamo where terror-suspects have been detained without indictment. He made this statement at the National Defence University.
Speaking on the phone Friday, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his American counterpart John Kerry agreed to meet in Paris on Monday to review preparations for the next conference on Syria.
Turkey has announced plans to build twin walls running for 1.5 miles at its border crossing with Syria following a bombing in February which left 14 dead and a twin car bomb that killed 51 this month in the nearby town of Reyhanli.
The head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde avoided charges on Friday but was named an "assisted witness" after two days of questioning by French prosecutors over a state payout to a disgraced tycoon when she was finance minister.
The Tunisian authorities intend to maintain the state of emergency in the country announced Defense Minister Rashid Sabbah.
The Russian government supports the country’s cinematography, President Vladimir Putin said at a conference dedicated to the development of the film industry in Sochi.
A powerful earthquake has struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, briefly triggering a tsunami warning. The epicenter of the quake, which the US Geological Survey said was of magnitude 8.3, was in the Sea of Okhotsk, around 600 kilometers under the sea. The quake was so powerful, that tremors were felt some 7 thousand kilometers to the west in the capital Moscow.
Fire crews arriving at the Leninsky Prospekt street in southwestern Moscow have successfully extinguished a second-storey apartment blaze which was started by a strike of lightning.
The European Union will emerge from the current crisis stronger than before if the EU governments pursue their previously set agendas and discard their self-serving interests.
After the end of World War II the US dollar replaced the British pound as the main reserve currency of the world. The currency reserves of the world’s central banks are mostly kept in dollars and most of the commodities essential to the functioning of the world economy are priced in dollars.
The Cyprus government "is determined to fight money laundering and terrorist financing and is constantly improving measures in this area", according to a statement made by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic.
On Thursday, the Japanese stock market experienced its biggest one-day plunge since 2011 caused by an earthquake coupled with a giant tsunami. This time, the cause of the crash had nothing to do with a natural disaster.
Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar.
David Cameron's woes are continuing this week with plans to legalize same-sex marriage to be debated in Parliament today and tomorrow. The issue is hugely divisive, not least within the Tory Party which seems to have been in open rebellion in the last couple of weeks over everything from the E.U. to the next election. And on Sunday 34 current and former local party chairmen delivered a letter to Downing Street opposing the policy as "flawed, un-Conservative and costing us dearly in votes and membership". Gay marriage is causing a heated row across the political and public spheres.
The Slavic Cultural Festival that timed to the 1150th anniversary of Slavic literacy and culture has ended at the Russian cultural centre in New Delhi.
Some people simply can't stop posting, friending and following, i.e. substituting a real life with surrogate feelings and emotions. Psychologists say that Internet addiction is real and they are not overreacting.
The death of Pyotr Todorovsky is a grievous loss to Russian art, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said concerning the death of the famous Russian film director. Todorovsky died in Moscow on Friday at the age of 88.
IMF chief Lagarde avoids charges for the time being
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