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French judges said they did not order the church offices closed because they did not want to drive Scientologists underground, where they could not be monitored.
At least five other cases involving complaints against the church are under investigation by courts around France, according to press reports. [video]
Two Chicago men have been charged in what officials said was a plot to attack employees of a Danish newspaper that in 2005 published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that offended many Muslims, according to criminal complaints unsealed Tuesday in federal court in Chicago.
One of the men had initially targeted a building occupied by the Danish newspaper, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen.
Attorneys moved closer to seating a jury in the first criminal case resulting from the state's 2008 raid on a polygamist sect's ranch after narrowing a jury pool to 34 on Tuesday.
Raymond Jessop is the first of 12 FLDS men to be tried on a variety of sexual assault and bigamy charges as a result of the April, 2008 raid on the cult's Yearning for Zion Ranch.
Police in Uganda are investigating a cult that has been operating in the Hoima District, the country's Daily Monitor says.
the leader of the 'Abengiri cult' discourages its followers from taking their children to school, immunising them and using toilets.
New Mexico's highest court has denied sect leader Wayne Bent's petition to be released on bond from prison while he appeals his convictions for sexual misconduct with teenage female followers, AP reports.
The Supreme Court denied the petition without explanation, as had the Court of Appeals.
AP also says Bent is being force-fed. A judge cleared the way for that after the cult leader tried to starve himself by means of an extended fast in protest of his imprisonment.
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