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...France decreed that 50,000 sheep be destroyed-at least twice as many as the number of animals culled in Britain itself. European Muslims prepared to celebrate the festival of Eid al Adha without its main ritual, the sacrifice of sheep. In distant Thailand, officials even threatened to jail travelers caught bringing in beef or pork from any of the 15 European Union countries. And on Friday came more doleful news there will be no St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin this year...
...With nearly all Chinese dissidents in jail or cowed into silence, their activism has passed to their families. In Beijing, Liu Jing and Zhang Hong, the sister and wife of jailed dissidents, issued a separate letter to the i.o.c. on Feb 15. The two had met in August 1999 through their lawyer. Both were enraged by the treatment meted out to their loved ones. Zhang, a retired shop clerk, saw her husband Jiang Qisheng jailed for four years when he urged Beijing residents to light candles in their windows to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre. Liu says...
...taking heat from Korea's police and prosecutors, who take a dim view of the country's latest cyberfad. In the past two months, they have launched raids on Internet broadcast stations around the country. The president of one station has already been sentenced to a year in jail for violating obscenity provisions of Korea's broadcasting laws, two others received suspended sentences and around 10 more are in jail, awaiting trial. Enterchannel is likely to get off with a $16,000 fine but Ebony was hauled in for questioning. "Police aren't trying to ban all sexual content...
...between first-degree murder and second-degree murder is based on the planning involved in the crime. Our society believes murders that involve prior planning deserve to be more severely punished than spontaneous killings. Accordingly, a first-degree murder conviction could result in the death penalty or life in jail, while second-degree murderers will likely be released into society again some...
...giant firm Russian Aluminum, did not attend the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos last week; the group withdrew its invitation after a fellow businessman filed a lawsuit accusing him of bribery and racketeering. Sergei Mikhailov, an entrepreneur who spent a little over two years in a Swiss jail on charges of heading a Mafia family before being released in December 1998 for lack of evidence, raged at a press conference in Moscow late last month: "America is now denied me, Europe is denied me, even Africa turned me away! They have made me nevyezdnoi...