Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 23-02-2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Afghan immigrant who pleaded guilty to plotting a suicide bomb attack on New York City subways with al Qaeda training did so after federal investigators threatened to jail his mother for an immigration offense, a law enforcement official said on Monday.
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Afghan admitted NY bomb plot to save mother – source
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 09-02-2010
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese lawyer jailed for falsifying evidence in a high-profile mob trial had his sentence cut on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to asking his client, a suspected mafia boss, to lie about being mistreated in custody.
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China lawyer’s jail term reduced after guilty plea
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 23-01-2010
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two Canadian men who pleaded guilty in a plot to acquire anti-aircraft missiles and other military equipment for the Tamil Tigers rebel group in Sri Lanka were sentenced on Friday to 26 and 14 years in prison.
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Two sentenced in N.Y. in Tamil missile-buying case
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 21-11-2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for the Communist-led Cuban government.
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Ex-State Dept official pleads guilty to spying for Cuba
Filed Under (world updates) by admin on 14-11-2009
FORT COLLINS (Reuters) – The parents of a Colorado boy whose apparent brush with death in a helium balloon transfixed millions pleaded guilty on Friday to staging a publicity-seeking hoax and will be sentenced next month.
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Balloon boy parents face sentence in December
