A British woman has escaped the death penalty after admitting smuggling crystal meth into Indonesia from China. Andrea Waldeck has instead been jailed for 14 years and fined £100,000. The 43-year-old admitted to taking three pounds of the drug through an airport in Java in April hidden in her underwear, but claimed she was coerced into it by... A British woman has escaped the death penalty after admitting smuggling crystal meth into Indonesia from China. Andrea Waldeck has instead been jailed for 14 years and fined £100,000. The 43-year-old admitted to taking three pounds of the drug through an airport in Java in April hidden in her underwear, but claimed she was coerced into it by her boyfriend in22
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‘Games’ teach us that women must be thin to be beautiful. Two mobile phone apps which encouraged children as young as nine to ‘operate’ on a cartoon ‘Barbie’ with scalpels and syringes have now been removed from the iTunes and Google Play stores. The apps22
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Parliament debates bill to ensure aid spendingadvancesgender equality. The UK parliament is currently debating the Gender Equality and International Development Bill. If it becomes law the Bill will force the Secretary of State for International Development consider the role of women in all21
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Vice President Jejomar Binay on Tuesday said President Benigno S. Aquino III has pledged a substantial amount to augment the blood money raised by the Philippine government to save overseas Filipino worker Joselito Zapanta from execution in Saudi Arabia. Zapanta was sentenced to death for
Iraq has executed 26 men convicted of "terrorism", the justice ministry said on Tuesday, despite widespread international condemnation of Iraq's extensive use of the death penalty. "The justice ministry carried out the executions of 26 (men) convicted of crimes related to terrorism on21
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ABU DHABI- A maid who murdered her employer’s four-month-old baby girl by smashing her head on a table had her death sentence upheld by the Appeals Court on Tuesday. The court heard that ST, from Indonesia, took the baby, named Malak, from the bedroom that was fitted with CCTV
Michael Blanc, 40, was sentenced to life in prison after 3.8 kilograms of hashish was found in his diving canisters at Bali airport the day after Christmas in 1999. His sentence was reduced to 20 years in 2008. Blanc has always maintained his innocence, insisting that he was given the diving
January 16, 2014: A young man convicted of sodomy was whipped 20 times in a northern Nigerian Shariah court. Though Mubarak Ibrahim was found guilty under Shariah law, it is the first conviction of a gay man in Nigeria since President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill that further21
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ABU DHABI- A man who ran over and killed a 12-year-old boy because he thought he had thrown rubbish into his car had his 15-year jail sentence changed to the death penalty on Monday. The original verdict of manslaughter for Pakistani SHB was changed to premeditated murder by the second21
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Is it easier to forgive and meet a rapist who was a child when he committed the offence? Katja Rosenberg, 40 recently met her attack through the restorative justice process and felt she was able to offer him hope. Could you? He was jailed for 14 years after admitting the rape of Rosenberg as20
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Welcome to this week’s news of British women in sport from around the world. Cricket: England’s women built on last week’s test victory with a convincing win in their first ODIon 19 January. They are now one win away from retaining the Ashes. Australia batted first and19
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Ohio's latest experience with putting an inmate to death raises new question about the ability of states to carry out executions in constitutional fashion. It took Dennis McGuire 26 minutes to die on Thursday after the chemicals — intravenous doses of the sedative midazolam and the22
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In 1906, the state of Minnesota held its last execution of a murderer. William Williams was hanged in the Ramsey County Courthouse basement, in the middle of the night. It was a botched job - the sheriff overestimated the amount of rope needed, Williams hit the floor without breaking his22
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With less than one week to go Charlie’s Big Challenge is fast becoming a reality… From 26 January to 1 February television presenter Charlie Webster will be running 250 miles and visiting 40 football clubs to raise awareness of Women’s Aid and encourage football clubs21
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Seat of Indian Supreme Court ACHR welcomes SC commutation of 15 death sentences The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has welcomed the judgment of the Supreme Court commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment for 15 death-row convicts on the grounds of inordinate21
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The state of Florida will today seek to block the release of key fingerprint evidence which could demonstrate the innocence of Krishna Maharaj (74), a British businessman sentenced to death in 1987 for murder. Although Mr Maharaj’s death sentence has since been quashed, due to21
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Anthony Graves Former Texas death row inmate Anthony Graves filed a state bar grievance Monday asking that former Burleson County District Attorney Charles Sebesta be held accountable by the State Bar of Texas for Graves' wrongful murder conviction. Lawmakers who flanked
January 17, 2014: The House's Militia, Police and Public Safety Committee passed House Bill 1052 that would allow forced electrocutions when lethal drugs aren't available. The bill passed on a 12-6 vote. The vote was largely along party lines, with Republicans voting in favor. The21
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Ohio Death Chamber In the wake of Dennis McGuire's controversial execution last week, legislative Democrats are ramping up efforts to halt - or at least modify - the death penalty in Ohio.State Sen. Edna Brown, a Toledo Democrat, called for an immediate moratorium on the death21
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The shocking truth about ‘Benefits Britain’ is … that people receiving benefits are people like us. Too often, people who have lost their jobs, have a disability or become ill, or who are in low paid work, find that when politicians talk about benefits, they talk about20
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Lena Dunham’s decision to become Vogue’s cover girl is both extraordinary and worrying. By Victoria Sadler. So it’s official. Lena Dunham is the cover girl for the February issue of American Vogue. But much as I love the woman, I really wish she’d turned the offer20
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Social justice as the route to health. If your January has been anything like mine, then no doubt you’ve been surrounded by the standard New Year’s deluge of gym leaflets through the door, diet promotions and articles in glossy mags, and of colleagues and19
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Tokyo Detention Center TOKYO — The trial began in Japan on Thursday of a former member of Aum Supreme Truth, 19 years after the doomsday cult launched a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people. Makoto Hirata, 48, turned himself in at a Tokyo police
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Emaciated corpses lie in the sand, their ribs protruding over sunken bellies, their thighs as thin as wrists. Several show signs of strangulation. The images conjure memories of some of history’s worst atrocities. Numbers inscribed on more than 11,000 bodies
The Walls Unit's Death HouseHuntsville, Texas The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Tuesday rejected attempts by Edgar Tamayo's lawyers to save him from the state's death chamber on Wednesday for the 1994 murder of Houston policeman Guy Gaddis. Tamayo's lawyers argued that21
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Officials in Italy reacted with dismay Monday at reports in the Indian media suggesting that 2 Italian marines accused of killing 2 Indian fishermen could face the death penalty. According to The Times of India newspaper, India's federal Home Ministry has allowed its investigative agency21
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Execution rehearsal in China BEIJING: Chinese authorities on Tuesday put to death a man who held six sex slaves in his basement and murdered two, state media reported. Li Hao, a 36-year-old former clerk, was executed after being convicted of “murder, rape, illegal21
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Denpasar. A French national faces the death penalty after allegedly attempting to smuggle three kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in the lining of his suitcase through customs at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, police said. Francois Jacques Giuliy, 48, was arrested at21
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January 20, 2014: A Vietnamese court sentenced 30 people to death for trafficking heroin at the conclusion of a mass trial. State media reported the 21 men and 9 women were convicted of being part of four connected rings that smuggled nearly 2 tons of heroin from Laos into Vietnam and then on
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Ohio Death Chamber The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio is asking Gov. John Kasich to halt executions. The ACLU sent a letter to Kasich today asking him to use his executive authority in light of the questions raised after Thursday's execution of Dennis McGuire. The21
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Not the men…. the women’s side. So far so good for England in the women’s Ashes as they go six points ahead in the multi-format contest. There’s no doubt that cricket is a hot sporting topic at the moment. England’s men crumbled to a humiliating 5-0 defeat in20
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Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Across the UK: Until 25 January: Sundance Rising viewing parties. On 19 January, the official One Billion Rising 2013 documentary short premiered at Sundance, the preeminent film festival founded by
Kerobokan Prison, Indonesia Indonesian authorities have approved the parole of a Frenchman jailed 14 years ago for drug-smuggling and he could be released in the coming days, an official said Sunday. The rare approval for the early release of a foreigner will raise hopes
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A Missouri death-row inmate scheduled for execution this month says the state prison system is improperly storing expired doses of a new lethal injection drug provided by an Oklahoma pharmacy that's not licensed to do business in the neighboring state. Attorneys for