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Revenue Official Burnt Alive By Angry Land Owner In Telangana
In a shocking incident that has raised questions over the security of government officers in Telangana, a tehsildar with the state revenue department was allegedly burnt alive by an angry land owner at her office in Abdullapurmet today.
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US Admits Error In Report Linking Terrorism To Immigration
The Justice Department has acknowledged errors and deficiencies in a controversial report issued a year ago that implied a link between terrorism in the United States and immigration, but - for the second and final time - officials have declined to retract or correct the document.
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Pak Asks US To "Immediately Correct" Statement On Imran Khan-Pompeo Call
In an unusual move, Pakistan has asked the US to "immediately correct" a readout issued by the State Department in which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was quoted as saying that he asked Pakistan's new prime minister to take "decisive action" against all terrorists operating in the country.
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7 Inmates Killed, 17 Others Injured In South Carolina Prison Riot: Official
Seven inmates were killed and 17 others injured in a riot at a maximum security prison in South Carolina, the southern US state's Department of Corrections said Monday.
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US To Withhold Some Hillary Clinton Emails With Top Secret Information
The US State Department conceded for the first time on Friday that intelligence officials were correct to say that at least 22 emails sent through Hillary Clinton's private server contain some of the government's most sensitive secrets.
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New Plan Could Allow Executions to Resume in California
California authorities proposed Friday a new method to execute inmates by lethal injection, potentially allowing the US state to resume capital punishment nearly a decade after legal challenges halted the practice.
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Florida Executes Man Who Killed 4 in 1985
The US state of Florida executed a convicted murderer Thursday who had been on death row 30 years for killing four people, including his five-year-old daughter, in 1985.
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US Woman Executed In Georgia, Despite Papal Appeal: Official
The US state of Georgia executed its first woman in 70 years early Wednesday, despite an appeal for clemency by Pope Francis.
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2 Held in US Over Foiled Drone Prison Smuggling Bid
Two men are in custody in the US state of Maryland on suspicion of trying to smuggle contraband into a prison with a drone, corrections officials said Monday.
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Manhunt for 2 New York Prison Escapees Focuses on Nearby Woods
Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search today on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said.
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New York Prison Break: Convicts on the Run for Days, Face High Odds of Capture
The two escaped inmates from a New York maximum security prison have far outlasted the typical jailbreak period, according to experts and corrections data, as state and federal authorities were hunting them for the fifth straight day today.
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Demonstrators Protest US Police's Shooting of a Biracial Man in Madison
About 1,500 people, some banging plastic pails or blowing whistles, marched on Wednesday to the Wisconsin corrections department in Madison to protest the fatal police shooting last week of an unarmed biracial young man.
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Mobile Jammers at Cherlapalli, Chanchalguda Prisons Soon: Government
Telangana State Prisons and Correctional Services Department is planning to install mobile phone signal jammers on the premises of Cherlapalli and Chanchalguda prisons to check the misuse of cell phone, a senior official said in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
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China Defends Tiananmen Crackdown on Eve of 25th Anniversary
China defended the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday, the eve of the 25th anniversary, saying it had chosen the correct path for the sake of the people.
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South Dakota executes man who raped, murdered 9-year old girl
South Dakota prison officials on Tuesday night executed a man convicted of the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl he abducted from a Sioux Falls convenience store in 1990, a state corrections department spokesman said.
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Revenue Official Burnt Alive By Angry Land Owner In Telangana
In a shocking incident that has raised questions over the security of government officers in Telangana, a tehsildar with the state revenue department was allegedly burnt alive by an angry land owner at her office in Abdullapurmet today.
-
US Admits Error In Report Linking Terrorism To Immigration
The Justice Department has acknowledged errors and deficiencies in a controversial report issued a year ago that implied a link between terrorism in the United States and immigration, but - for the second and final time - officials have declined to retract or correct the document.
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Pak Asks US To "Immediately Correct" Statement On Imran Khan-Pompeo Call
In an unusual move, Pakistan has asked the US to "immediately correct" a readout issued by the State Department in which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was quoted as saying that he asked Pakistan's new prime minister to take "decisive action" against all terrorists operating in the country.
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7 Inmates Killed, 17 Others Injured In South Carolina Prison Riot: Official
Seven inmates were killed and 17 others injured in a riot at a maximum security prison in South Carolina, the southern US state's Department of Corrections said Monday.
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US To Withhold Some Hillary Clinton Emails With Top Secret Information
The US State Department conceded for the first time on Friday that intelligence officials were correct to say that at least 22 emails sent through Hillary Clinton's private server contain some of the government's most sensitive secrets.
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New Plan Could Allow Executions to Resume in California
California authorities proposed Friday a new method to execute inmates by lethal injection, potentially allowing the US state to resume capital punishment nearly a decade after legal challenges halted the practice.
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Florida Executes Man Who Killed 4 in 1985
The US state of Florida executed a convicted murderer Thursday who had been on death row 30 years for killing four people, including his five-year-old daughter, in 1985.
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US Woman Executed In Georgia, Despite Papal Appeal: Official
The US state of Georgia executed its first woman in 70 years early Wednesday, despite an appeal for clemency by Pope Francis.
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2 Held in US Over Foiled Drone Prison Smuggling Bid
Two men are in custody in the US state of Maryland on suspicion of trying to smuggle contraband into a prison with a drone, corrections officials said Monday.
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Manhunt for 2 New York Prison Escapees Focuses on Nearby Woods
Hundreds of law enforcement agents hunting for two upstate New York prison escapees focused their search today on a heavily wooded area just a few miles from the maximum security facility where they broke out last week, police said.
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New York Prison Break: Convicts on the Run for Days, Face High Odds of Capture
The two escaped inmates from a New York maximum security prison have far outlasted the typical jailbreak period, according to experts and corrections data, as state and federal authorities were hunting them for the fifth straight day today.
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Demonstrators Protest US Police's Shooting of a Biracial Man in Madison
About 1,500 people, some banging plastic pails or blowing whistles, marched on Wednesday to the Wisconsin corrections department in Madison to protest the fatal police shooting last week of an unarmed biracial young man.
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Mobile Jammers at Cherlapalli, Chanchalguda Prisons Soon: Government
Telangana State Prisons and Correctional Services Department is planning to install mobile phone signal jammers on the premises of Cherlapalli and Chanchalguda prisons to check the misuse of cell phone, a senior official said in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
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China Defends Tiananmen Crackdown on Eve of 25th Anniversary
China defended the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Tuesday, the eve of the 25th anniversary, saying it had chosen the correct path for the sake of the people.
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South Dakota executes man who raped, murdered 9-year old girl
South Dakota prison officials on Tuesday night executed a man convicted of the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl he abducted from a Sioux Falls convenience store in 1990, a state corrections department spokesman said.
