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New York (AFP) - An Uzbek man who killed eight people in a truck attack in New York six years ago will spend the rest of his life in jail after jurors were unable to agree on the death penalty Monday. Prosecutors had argued for capital punishment for Sayfullo Saipov, who was convicted in January of several murder and terrorism charges over the attack on October 31, 2017. But Saipov received a life term without the possibility of parole after the jury in Manhattan federal court failed to unanimously agree on the death sentence. Saipov, now 35, drove a rented pickup truck down a Manhattan bike p...
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Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan next week, the State Department said Thursday, courting former Soviet republics uneasy over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The top US diplomat will hold talks Tuesday in Kazakhstan's capital Astana before heading to Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, on his way to a meeting of Group of 20 foreign ministers in New Delhi, the State Department said. The trip will come days after the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, which has received billions of dollars in US weapons and economic support to help fig...
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New York (AFP) - US prosecutors argued Monday that an Uzbek man who killed eight people in New York six years ago should be executed, despite President Joe Biden's opposition to the death penalty. The sentencing trial of Sayfullo Saipov is the first federal prosecution during Biden's tenure in which the Justice Department (DoJ) is seeking capital punishment. Although the Biden administration declared a moratorium on all federal executions, if Saipov receives the sentence he could be put to death, either under a future president or if the moratorium is lifted. The same 12 jurors who last month ...
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New York (AFP) - An Uzbek man who drove a truck down a New York bike path five years ago killing eight people was found guilty Thursday of a raft of murder and terrorism charges. Sayfullo Saipov, 34, drove the rented vehicle down a mile-long stretch of bike path in Manhattan as children and their parents prepared to celebrate Halloween on October 31, 2017. It was the deadliest attack in New York since the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda hijackings brought down the World Trade Center. Five of those killed by Saipov were a group of friends from Argentina celebrating 30 years since their high school ...
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