Obama reverses order halting military trails of Guantanamo detainees
March 8th, 2011 - 12:11 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar 8(ANI): US President Barack Obama has reversed his two-year-old order halting new military charges against detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The new order permits military trials to resume with revamped ... Read more...
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Social activist actress Jagger slams Obama for GITMO closure failure
January 12th, 2011 - 5:22 pm ICT by ANI
New York, Jan.12 (ANI): Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and fashion icon Bianca Jagger has criticized US President Barack Obama for failing to restore 'America's moral ... Read more...
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Hollywood star Wesley Snipes teaching yoga in jail
January 9th, 2011 - 5:43 pm ICT by ANI
Nevada (US), Jan 9 (ANI): Hollywood actor-producer Wesley Snipes, who is serving time at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI)-McKean (Pennsylvania, USA), is teaching yoga, according to reports.Wesley Trent Snipes, 48, is reportedly serving ... Read more...
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Bosnian rape victims slam ‘ignorant’ Jolie over her directorial debut
November 30th, 2010 - 12:39 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Nov 30 (ANI): Bosnian rape victims of 1990s' inter-ethnic war have blasted Angelina Jolie, who is shooting a movie about Bosnia that has sparked controversy, calling her "ignorant" about the ... Read more...
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Rape victims of Balkan war say Jolie’s film on event will re-ignite their hell
November 1st, 2010 - 6:08 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 01 (ANI): Actress Angelina Jolie's planned film on the Balkan war has not been met with favour by the women who were victims of rape and abuse during the ... Read more...
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Japanese foreign minister Katsuya Okada apologizes to US POWs
September 14th, 2010 - 8:32 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sep 14 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Japanese government has apologized to a group of former prisoner of wars (POW) from the United States that honored the Japanese government's invitation to visit ... Read more...
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Japan Apologizes To US POW For Inhuman Treatment
September 14th, 2010 - 7:37 pm ICT by GD
By Ranjan Bhaduri
Japan, Sep 14, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The foreign minister of Japan expressed his apologies to a batch of former World War II prisoners hailing from the USA for the way ... Read more...
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British prime minister calls Gaza ‘prison camp’
July 27th, 2010 - 9:39 pm ICT by IANS
Ankara/Istanbul, July 27 (DPA) British Prime Minister David Cameron described Gaza as a "prison camp" during a trip to Turkey Tuesday, in unusually outspoken comments that overshadowed a speech giving strong ... Read more...
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George Harrison’s widow slams Rodney Bewes
July 12th, 2010 - 5:15 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 12 (ANI): Late Beatles member George Harrisson's wife Olivia Harrison has slammed actor Rodney Bewes, who accused her of turning her Oxfordshire home into a prison camp.Olivia said that former ... Read more...
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Will Smith’s ‘I-Day’ bravery named best Fourth of July movie moment
July 2nd, 2010 - 5:48 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 02 (ANI): American actor Will Smith's struggle to save the world from aliens in the 1996 hit 'Independence Day' has been voted America's favourite Fourth of July movie moment ... Read more...
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Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff released from prison
June 10th, 2010 - 1:59 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Maryland, Jun 9 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Washington lobbyist Jack Abramhoff was released from prison. However he is not a free man totally, as he would be placed in a halfway house, which is ... Read more...
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Great Escape Veteran Jack Harrison Dead at 97
June 9th, 2010 - 9:10 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
A British airman who is known to be the last surviving member of the "Great Escape", and epic prison break which occurred during World War II has passed away at the age ... Read more...
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Laura Ling Honors Her Freedom & Sister With Miracle Baby
May 21st, 2010 - 10:00 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
May 21 (THAINDIAN NEWS) As she was being sentenced to twelve years of hard labor in a prison camp in North Korea last summer, Laura Ling's chances of ever having children ... Read more...
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Michael Douglas’ son ‘transferred to prison camp in Philadelphia’
May 17th, 2010 - 2:18 pm ICT by ANI
New York, May 17 (ANI): Michael Douglas' son, Cameron, has been moved to a minimum-security prison camp in Lewisburg, Philadelphia, according to reports.Cameron, a heroin addict, was given five-year jail term on ... Read more...
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Michael Douglas’ son shifted to minimum security prison
May 16th, 2010 - 1:42 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 16 (IANS) Hollywood veteran Michael Douglas' son Cameron, who was sentenced to five years in prison for drug dealing, has been transferred to a minimum security prison camp without fences ... Read more...
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Douglas’s son in lock-up limbo as lawyers argue over right jail
April 23rd, 2010 - 6:17 pm ICT by ANI
New York, April 23 (ANI): It has still not been decided where Michael Douglas's son Cameron Douglas will serve a 60 month-sentence for distributing drugs.Cameron's lawyers initially requested that he be made ... Read more...
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Ex-aide of Powell says Bush ‘knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent’
April 9th, 2010 - 2:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr.9 (ANI): A key aide of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said that former US President George W. Bush, his vice-president Dick Cheney and former defense minister ... Read more...
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First Guantanamo prisoner arrives in Spain
February 24th, 2010 - 7:08 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, Feb 24 (DPA) An inmate from the US detention facility in Guantanamo, Cuba, arrived Wednesday in Spain, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.
The Palestinian was the first of among up ... Read more...
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Now Joe Wright to direct film about teenage assassin
November 18th, 2009 - 1:18 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Nov 18 (IANS) After controversial film "Indian Summer" - about Lady Edwina Mountbatten's alleged affair with India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru - has been scrapped, director Joe Wright will ... Read more...
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Russians divided over how they see Stalin
September 15th, 2009 - 5:06 pm ICT by ANI
Moscow, Sep. 15 (ANI): Even as The Kremlin continues to glorify soviet dictator Joseph Stalin by glossing his image in schoolbooks, opinion across Russia is divided over how to view him.While ... Read more...
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Portugal to take two Guantanamo detainees
August 8th, 2009 - 3:56 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 8 (DPA) Portugal has agreed to resettle two Syrian Guantanamo Bay detainees to assist in US President Barack Obama's plan to close the controversial prison camp by next year, ... Read more...
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Clinton did not apologise to North Korea’s Kim to secure journalists release
August 5th, 2009 - 2:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug.5 (ANI): U.S. officials have rubbished reports appearing in the North Korean media that former president Bill Clinton personally apologized to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to secure the release ... Read more...
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Bill Clinton arrives in North Korea to secure release of Americans
August 4th, 2009 - 12:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug.4 (ANI): Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has arrived in North Korean capital Pyongyang to negotiate the release of two American television journalists who were sentenced to 12 years of hard ... Read more...
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US asks Spain to take four Guantanamo detainees
June 17th, 2009 - 9:32 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, June 17 (DPA) The US has asked Spain to take four detainees from its Guantanamo prison camp when it is closed next year, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Wednesday.
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Palau agrees to take in up to 17 Guantanamo prisoners
June 11th, 2009 - 1:45 am ICT by GD
The United States of America has been finally successful in winning an agreement with the Palau authorities about the transfer of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to this sparsely populated island nation. This ... Read more...
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The truth about Lanka’s secret refugee camps revealed
May 24th, 2009 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
Colombo, May 24 (ANI): They squat in a circle, grinding their tiny hands nervously into the mud behind the six foot high barbed wire fence that imprisons them. And their little eyes ... Read more...
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FBI warns Obama over shifting Guantanamo detainees to US
May 22nd, 2009 - 4:54 am ICT by IANS
Washington, May 22 (IANS) The FBI has warned President Barack Obama of the risks involved in transferring the Guantanamo Bay detainees to the US after the controversial prison camp is permanently ... Read more...
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30 years on, spotlight on Cambodia’s killing fields once more
April 29th, 2009 - 12:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The world sat up and took notice when Hollywood director Ronald Joffe captured bloodied images of Cambodia, ravaged by the dread Khmer Rouge militia in his 1981 ... Read more...
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CIA closes secret prisons for terrorism suspects (Lead)
April 10th, 2009 - 7:08 am ICT by IANS
Washington, April 10 (DPA) The US will no longer hold terrorism suspects in secret prisons and plans to shut down any facilities still in operation, CIA Director Leon Panetta has said, ... Read more...
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Prisoners held in Afghanistan can challenge detention: US court
April 3rd, 2009 - 11:39 am ICT by IANS
Washington, April 3 (DPA) A US federal court ruled Thursday that a group of prisoners being held by the US forces in Afghanistan have the right to challenge their detentions in ... Read more...
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EU urged to help end Guantanamo ’scandal’
February 26th, 2009 - 10:12 am ICT by IANS
Brussels, Feb 26 (DPA) Sherif el-Mashad, a 32-year-old Egyptian with a knack for carpentry, moved to Italy in 1997 in search of a better life. Having obtained the necessary permits, he began ... Read more...
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Judge rebuffs Obama; refuses to suspend Gitmo hearing
January 30th, 2009 - 10:35 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 30 (DPA) A military judge in Gutananamo Bay Thursday denied a request by the Obama administration to suspend the proceedings against a Yemeni suspected of plotting the October 2000 attack ... Read more...
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UN chief welcomes closure of Guantanamo
January 24th, 2009 - 9:03 am ICT by IANS
New York, Jan 24 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has welcomed US President Barack Obama's decision to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."The United Nations has previously called for ... Read more...
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Obama signs executive order to close Guantanamo prison camp
January 23rd, 2009 - 2:39 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 23 (DPA) US President Barack Obama signed an executive order Thursday to close the controversial prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba within a year.The order sets into motion a ... Read more...
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EU welcomes Obama’s suspension of Guantanamo prosecutions
January 22nd, 2009 - 2:35 am ICT by IANS
Brussels, Jan 22 (DPA) The European Union's top justice official Wednesday welcomed US President Barack Obama's decision to temporarily suspend prosecutions at the country's controversial prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba."I ... Read more...
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