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Italian prosecutors on Tuesday asked for a 30-year prison sentence for former US student Amanda Knox at a retrial whe
stanley cup re she is being judged in absentia for the murder of her housemate, Italian media reported. Prosecutors at the tri
stanley cup al also requested that her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito be given 26 years, saying the punishment should be harsher for Knox because she initially accused someone else of the crime. Knox and Sollecito have already served four years in prison for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, who was found half-naked in a pool of blood on November 2, 2006 in the house she shared with Knox. The two, who have always protested their innocence, were acquitted on appeal in 2011 but the supreme court earlier this year overturned that ruling, sending the case back to the appeals stage at a court in Florence. The retrial is expected to reach a verdict in January. Knox is now back in the United States and experts say it is highly unlikely that she could ever be extradited even if she is convicted and even if that conviction is upheld in another appea
stanley cup l to the supreme court. Rudy Guede, a local petty thief and drug dealer, has been convicted separately and is serving a 16-year sentence for the gruesome murder which shocked the university town of Perugia and has divided opinions. Prosecutor Alessandro Crini told the court on Tuesday that the DNA evidence, which is highly disputed in the case, showed that Sollecito and Knox had stabbed Kercher whi Rvkt Suspected al Qaeda associate arrested in NY
The number of new jobless claims in the United States rose by 1.2 percent to 652,000 during the week ending March 21 as the count
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stanley cup ment said on Thursday. HT Image The initial claims for unemployment benefits was roughly in line with the 650,000 figure forecast by analysts and marked an increase of 8,000 from the previous week s revised figure of 644,000. The claims peaked two weeks ago at 657,000, a 26-year high. The four-week moving average of initial claims, a more reliable indicator of unemployment trends, was 649,000, down by 1,000 from the previous week s revised average of 650,000, the department said. It said that the number of people receiving unemployment benefits for the week ending March 14 increased to a new record high of 5.56 million, an increase of 122,000 from the preceding week s revised level of 5.43 million. The weekly report gives the most current snapshot of the labor market but is subject to volatility. The latest monthly report showed February unemployment rate had jumped to a 25-year high of 8.1 percent, from from 7.6 percent in January as employers shed payrolls to cope with the economic slide. Read breaking news, latest... See more Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Ele
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