KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Every president makes at least one controversial pardon. But Donald Trump's pardon of former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is different. It came just seven months into the Trump presidency, and it was announced late Friday night on

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AZUZ: Another breaking news story from Friday night involved President Trump's pardon of a man who used to be a sheriff in the state of Arizona. His name is Joe Arpaio. He served for 24 years as the sheriff of Maricopa County. Arpaio had called himse

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The Opposition says the information leaks that have plagued the Government are a sign of chaos at the top. Opposition finance spokesman Andrew Robb has seized on Treasurer Wayne Swan's admission the Government can't stop the leaks. We can't control l

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Tiger Airways' future in Australia remains unclear because the air safety regulator is asking the Federal Court today to extend the ban on the airline's domestic flights until the end of the month. The airline's CEO Crawford Rix resigned within hours

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This is AP News Minute. President Obama commuted the 35-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, freeing her in May. Manning acknowledged leaking diplomatic cables and national security documents to Wikileaks for publication in 2010. Wikileaks' edito

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This is AP News Minute. President Barack Obama defended his decision to grant clemency to convicted leaker Chelsea Manning. Mr. Obama made the comments at the White House Wednesday during his last press conference as president. The president said he

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The Obama administration and congressional law makers are rejecting a plea for clemency from Edward Snowden whose in the sylum in Russia. Snowden met with a German law maker last week and gave him a letter asking the US for clemency for charges of al

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 03 July 2007 President Bush in Washington, 3 July 2007 President Bush is defending his decision to commute the prison sentence of a former top White House aide. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson reports, the acti

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By Dan Robinson Washington 18 July 2007 A U.S. congressional panel has approved legislation aimed at supporting democracy and human rights in Ethiopia, sending the bill to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. VOA's Dan Robinson has this report from C

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 20 July 2007 Ethiopia announced Thursday it had pardoned 38 opposition leaders and activists just days after its high court sentenced many of them to life in prison for their role in post-election protests in 2005. As Nick Wad

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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. 沉沦抑或求生,活着抑或死亡,幸免抑或毁灭?我完全支持这一投票表决。 It is true, indeed, that, in the beginning, we aimed not at in

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Another breaking news story from Friday night involved President Trump's pardon of a man who used to be a sheriff in the state of Arizona. 周五晚上的另一则爆炸性新闻特朗普总统宣布赦免亚利桑那州前警长。 His name is Joe A

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By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 06 April 2006 Three Christian militants sentenced to death for killing Muslims during sectarian violence that shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island six years ago may be exe

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By Trish Anderton Jakarta 30 October 2007 Indonesia's constitutional court has upheld capital punishment for drug traffickers. The verdict came in an appeal filed by members of the so-called Bali nine - Australians convicted in a heroin case two year

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Human rights protesters have greeted Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on his arrival in Australia. He is in Australia for talks on trade with his counterpart, Kevin Rudd. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. A small but noisy crowd of about 30

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By Tim Johnston Jakarta 14 February 2006 Andrew Chan Two Australian drug traffickers have been sentenced to death by judges in Indonesia for their leading roles in a plot to smuggle more than eight ki

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 11 July 2007 The Libyan Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences for six foreign medical workers imprisoned on disputed charges that they infected Libyan children with HIV. But there is still a chance they could be spa

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 04 March 2008 An Indian prisoner who spent 35 years on death row in a Pakistan jail has returned to India, after being granted clemency by Pakistani authorities. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi his return is being

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged North Korea to grant clemency for two American journalists sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday for illegally entering that country and another unspecified offense. Clinton said the United States

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The minimum wage and penalty rates will be examined in a government review in industrial relations. The Productivity Commission Fundings are expected to form the basis of a new workplace relations policy for the coalition. A final report is due in No

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