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Former Guatemalan dictator to stand trial on genocide charges
MEXICO CITY – Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt will stand trial on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, a Guatemalan judge ruled Monday, in incidents that took place during the height of the Central American nation's brutal...
Tags: Judges, Government, Human Rights Watch, Trials, Heads of State
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U.S. court considers claim on art stolen by Nazis
WASHINGTON -- A three-judge federal appellate court heard brief oral arguments Wednesday in what art experts say could be the last great Holocaust-era art restitution case, one with a California connection, but issued no ruling. The unusual case was...
Tags: Judges, Arts, Government, Politics, Adolf Eichmann
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Argentina is cautionary tale as U.S. debates debt limit
You know all those warnings about how America's addiction to deficit spending is going to make us look like Greece? Stop worrying. The bigger concern should be that America will look like Argentina. That could happen, theoretically, if the...
Tags: Judges, Bonds, Politics, International Law, U.S. Congress
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Kadafi son appears in Libyan court for 'undermining security'
The son of the late strongman Moammar Kadafi appeared in a Libyan court Thursday for the first time, facing charges tied to the controversial detention of his attorney last year. Seif Islam Kadafi has been accused of crimes against humanity by the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, International Criminal Court, Trials, Muammar Gaddafi, International Law
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Central African Republic peace talks lead to coalition government
JOHANNESBURG – Opposition forces in the Central African Republic who took control of a large swath of the country in recent weeks have succeeded in forcing President Francois Bozize’s government to share power, officials said Friday. In a...
Tags: Government, Politics, Central African Republic, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Africa
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Bosnian Serb general found guilty of genocide, sentenced to life
A Bosnian Serb general was convicted of genocide and other war crimes Wednesday by a United Nations tribunal in the Netherlands for his role in plotting and carrying out the murder of thousands of Muslim men in Eastern Bosnia in 1995. Zdravko Tolimir,...
Tags: Murder, Ratko Mladic, Extradition, Prosecution, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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African Union tells Central African Republic rebels to end uprising
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The African Union on Monday warned rebels who are threatening to oust the Central African Republic government that they would face isolation in Africa, suspension from the organization and sanctions if they do so. Nkosana...
Tags: Central African Republic, African Union, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Africa, Thomas Yayi Boni
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Don't punish Palestinians for seeking justice
Very few things unite Democratic and Republican senators in Washington. But unfortunately, one thing that does is attacking the human rights of Palestinians. And now they're are at it again. This time in the form of an anti-Palestinian amendment sponsored...Tags: Barbara A. Mikulski, Politics, Bob Menendez, Religion and Belief, International Law
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Israel moves forward with controversial West Bank development
JERUSALEM – Israel took another step Wednesday toward developing a highly sensitive plot of West Bank land, submitting construction plans for nearly 3,400 units of new Jewish housing on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The project, known as E-1, has...
Tags: Mahmoud Abbas, Czech Republic, Government, Politics, Religion and Belief
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Israel withholds tax revenues from Palestinian Authority
JERUSALEM -- Israel said Sunday it would withhold more than $100 million in tax revenue this month from the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, the latest reaction to last week's U.N. vote recognizing the Palestinian territories as a "nonmember...Tags: Heart Attack, Finance, Mahmoud Abbas, Ehud Olmert, Government
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Ending the cycle of abuse in Congo
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — On Nov. 19, armed men from a rebel group called the M23 were looking for a prominent civil society leader in a village outside Goma, a provincial capital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He'd been...
Tags: Rwanda, Murder, Joseph Kabila, Human Rights Watch, Politics
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Congo rebels occupy key city of Goma
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo seized the eastern city of Goma with ease on Tuesday, raising fears of a new regional war that could leave tens of thousands of people dead. Facing little resistance, the M23...
Tags: Crisis, Rwanda, Government, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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