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Review: Crime-solving quartet saves the day in 'Bletchley Circle'
Thanks to Sherlock Holmes and his Doctor Watson, we are used to detectives coming in asymmetrical pairs: Your Batman and Robin (superheroes, you say, but their career began in Detective Comics), your Poirot and Hastings, your Morse and Lewis, your Lewis...Tags: Grimm (tv program), Rachael Stirling, NBC (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice, Sociology
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Tribeca 2013: 'The Rocket,' 'Kill Team' among fest's top winners
NEW YORK -- A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night. "The Rocket," the...Tags: Movies, Celebrities, New York City, Festive Events, U.S. Military
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Protests follow judges' rulings in Guatemalan war crimes trial
MEXICO CITY – Contradictory court judgments in the war crimes trial of former Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt this week set off protests in Guatemala City and prompted rebukes from human rights organizations. On Friday, Judge Jazmin...
Tags: Trials, Civil Rights, Mexico, Central Intelligence Agency, United Nations
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Guatemala war crimes trial rulings spur protests
MEXICO CITY — Contradictory court judgments in the war crimes trial of former Guatemalan dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt this week set off protests in Guatemala City and prompted rebukes from human rights organizations around the world. On Friday,...
Tags: Trials, Civil Rights, Mexico, Mexico City, United Nations
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Civilian deaths in Syria documented by rights group
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.Syrian government forces have bombed bakeries and hospitals and indiscriminately carried out air attacks against civilians, Human Rights Watch said in a newly released report. Such strikes violate the laws of war and should be prosecuted as war crimes, it...Tags: Civil Rights, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Mexico government downplays deadly violence
MEXICO CITY — The new government of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has sought to downplay the deadly violence that has long haunted much of Mexico and that he repeatedly pledged to reduce. But the country's killers aren't cooperating....
Tags: Elections, Government, Mexico, Drug Trafficking, Mexico City
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‘Django Unchained’: Preview latest installment in Vertigo miniseries
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesDC Comics' Vertigo imprint is continuing its translation of the original screenplay for Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning western onto the paneled ...... -
Court confirms election of Kenyatta as Kenya's president
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The second-place finisher in Kenya’s recent presidential election accepted a unanimous Supreme Court ruling Saturday that his chief rival, Uhuru Kenyatta, was the rightful winner. The court ruled the election was free...
Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Elections, Kenya, Crime, Law and Justice, Nairobi (Kenya)
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'Doctor Who,' 'Girls,' Lorne Michaels among Peabody Award winners
"Doctor Who" is celebrating 50 years on the air this year, new episodes begin airing Saturday and to top it all off, the good Doctor has just received a Peabody Award for 50 years of "evolving with technology and the times like nothing else in the known...
Tags: Girls (tv program), 2012 Summer Olympics, NPR, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Al Jazeera (tv network)
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Rights groups hail surrender of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- In his seven years on the run from international justice, Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda became a symbol of the International Criminal Court's impotence. Now the court, which lacks a police force to arrest those it has...
Tags: Joseph Kabila, International Court or Tribunal, Rwanda, Crime, Law and Justice, International Law
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Khmer Rouge leader dies, eluding war crimes verdict
NEW DELHI -- The death Thursday of one of the last senior leaders of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime before his trial concluded underscores flaws in the war-crimes tribunal process that threaten to undermine the pursuit of global justice,...
Tags: Trials, Civil Rights, Government, Heads of State, Criminals
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Amnesty International urges caution in arming Syrian rebels
BEIRUT -- Any government considering arming Syrian rebels should conduct a “rigorous human-rights risk assessment” before proceeding with weapons transfers, Amnesty International said Thursday. The group released a pair of studies detailing...Tags: Civil Rights, Government, Weaponry, Political Dissent, United Nations
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