More serious crimes requiring a more severe sentence will still be tried in the borough's central criminal court.

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's U.K. newspaper unit appeared in London's central criminal court on two separate matters, but their cases were adjourned to a later date.

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Iraq's Central Criminal Court sentenced al-Zaidi to three years in March after he was found guilty of assaulting a foreign head of state on an official visit to Iraq.

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The magistrate referred Adebowale's case to a higher court -- the Old Bailey in London, also known as the Central Criminal Court -- where he will have a bail hearing June 3 and a further preliminary hearing June 28.

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In a statement, the prosecutor general said Alaa, Gamal and seven others had been referred to the criminal court on charges of violating stock market and central bank rules.

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The new force will augment at least 4, 000 U.S.-backed Ugandan troops currently in the Central African Republic hunting for the rebel leader indicted by the International Criminal Court whose forces are blamed for abducting at least 30, 000 children from northern Uganda in the past two decades.

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