Indian charged in US for toosh trade
In the US's first prosecution involving fleece, the US District Court of Newark held a Hong Kong resident, a New Jersey woman and an Indian export house guilty of violating the Endangered Species Act.



Nurse suspected of poisoning daughter for insurance money
A Japanese nurse tried to murder her 15-year-old daughter with poisoned tea to collect $278,000 in life insurance.



Japan sentences poison gas attackers to death
Japan sentenced two Aum Supreme Truth disciples to death by hanging on Monday for spreading the deadly Nazi-invented Sarin nerve gas in Tokyo's subway in 1995.



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