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Fujimori jailed for burglary

LIMA: Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was sentenced to 6 years in prison on Tuesday for sending an aide to steal documents from his spy chief, a ruling that could harm his defence in a separate murder trial. Supreme Court judge Pedro Urbina found Fujimori guilty of ordering the aide to break into a house where intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos had hidden 40 boxes of videos and tapes that documented corruption in Fujimori's government.

US mum on

CIA tapes

WASHINGTON: A White House spokeswoman insisted Tuesday that the United States does not use torture, but remained mum on the destruction of CIA interrogation tapes that might have proven it does. "I can say that any interrogations have been legal and that they have been fully briefed to the United States Congress," said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino. The White House is facing intense new questioning since the CIA chief revealed last week that the agency destroyed two videos showing the interrogation of suspected extremists in 2005, when Congress was investigating allegations that suspects were tortured.

Lavatory trap

LONDON: A retired Scottish school teacher was recovering on Monday after spending nearly four days trapped inside a men's toilet with no food or mobile phone. David Leggat was locked inside the bathroom at a lawn bowling club near the Scottish city of Aberdeen after the door jammed and the handle on the outside fell off. The 55-year-old kept warm by dipping his feet in hot water but only managed to get about three hours' sleep a night in the freezing temperatures.