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Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary dies during Cambodia trial
Ieng Sary, who co-founded Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge movement in 1970s, was its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to be put on trial for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, died Thursday morning. He was 87....
Tags: Trials, Heads of State, High Blood Pressure, Crime, Law and Justice, Cambodia
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Review: 'Emperor' has misplaced priorities
The scene is a devastated Japan, August 1945, as "Emperor," the new historical drama starring Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones, begins. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are little more than smoking rubble and stone-faced survivors. Emperor Hirohito has officially...
Tags: Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, World War II (1939-1945), Tommy Lee Jones, Entertainment
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Tension in Kenya as election result delayed again
NAIROBI, Kenya -- As tensions mounted over repeated failures to issue results in Kenya’s tightly fought presidential contest, the election commission Friday said there would be a further delay but promised the announcement later in the evening....
Tags: Nairobi (Kenya), International Law, Science and Technology, Elections, Voting
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Riveting 'Emperor' gets some dry revisions ★★
"I don't need a history lesson, Your Excellency," the true-blue American general tells Emperor Hirohito's ex-prime minister when he lectures his inquisitor about the bloody imperialist actions of Great Britain and America, along with Japan, in the new...
Tags: Movies, World War II (1939-1945), Fiction, Laurence Olivier, Emperor (movie)
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Army judge accepts guilty pleas in WikiLeaks case
Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military’s “...
Tags: Iraq, Trials, Arab Spring, Crime, Law and Justice, Armed Conflicts
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GI pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case, faces 20 years
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the...
Tags: Iraq, Trials, Arab Spring, Crime, Law and Justice, Armed Conflicts
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Announcing the 2012 L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
This post has been updated; see below for details. The finalists for the 33rd L.A. Times Book Prizes were announced Thursday morning -- the complete list is below. In addition to the 50 books in 10 categories that are in the running for the awards,...
Tags: Gravesend, French Literature, University of Oxford, Michael Chabon, Joseph P. Kennedy
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U.N. panel finds conflict in Syria 'increasingly sectarian'
BEIRUT—The situation in war-ravaged Syria “is deteriorating rapidly” and both sides have committed crimes against humanity in an “increasingly sectarian” conflict that threatens peace throughout the Middle East, a United...
Tags: Hugo Chavez, Human Rights, Wars and Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice, United Nations
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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: Human Rights, Trials, Heads of State, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Rights Watch
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World War II medals stolen from home of retired Marine
L.A. NOWA reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the burglar who stole the World War II medals of a retired Marine from his home in Vista. The medals were taken from the...... -
Military court to review rule making suicide attempt a crime
L.A. NOWIn a case involving a discharged Marine from Oceanside, a military court next week will consider the decades-old military statute that makes it a crime to attempt suicide.... -
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: Crime, Law and Justice, United Nations, Massacres, Deportation, Ratko Mladic
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