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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Women’s slayings to be investigated
World |
September 2, 2008
Pakistan opened an investigation into the killings of five women who tried to choose their own husbands after a Baluchistan province lawmaker defended what he called “centuries-old traditions.” Read more
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Drug-trade mayhem crisscrosses nation
World |
August 30, 2008
The sickening discovery this week of 11 headless bodies heaped like broken dolls near the colonial city of Merida underscored a bitter lesson for Mexico: The battle to control the multibillion-dollar drug trade knows no boundaries. Read more
Sunday, August 24, 2008
His Holocaust document
Entertainment |
August 24, 2008
FOURTEEN months ago, Richard Ehrlich left his office at the UCLA Medical Center, flew to Berlin and rented the best digital camera available. Read more
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Divided by war’s scars in Srebrenica
World |
July 24, 2008
The legacy of Radovan Karadzic is etched here in unsmiling, mistrustful faces; on tombstones that march shoulder to shoulder for nearly a quarter-mile; in empty, scarred houses whose owners never returned. Read more
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Sudan ready to ignore any Darfur warrants
World |
July 12, 2008
Sudanese officials on Friday largely shrugged off reports that the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is seeking the arrest of the country’s president on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, reiterating their rejection of the court’s authority. Read more
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Sudan promotes militia leader in Darfur violence
World |
January 22, 2008
Sudan’s government said Monday that it had appointed a militia leader accused of atrocities in Darfur as the special advisor to its president, sparking outrage from human rights groups. Read more
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Grisly video offered in war crimes trial
World |
January 8, 2008
A “blood diamond” expert offered the first testimony in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Monday, and a Sierra Leone miner said in videotaped evidence that laughing rebels hacked off his hands and burned his family. Read more
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Priest’s conviction awakens old ghosts
World |
October 21, 2007
buenos aires – He was a Catholic priest who roamed the gulag of
secret Argentine detention centers like a kind of spiritual predator. Read more
Friday, October 5, 2007
Telling the world about Myanmar’s era of tyranny - Prince Hso Khan Pha says the government crackdown in the Asian nation pales beside the decades of oppression in the Shan region.
California | Local |
October 5, 2007
His Royal Highness Prince Hso Khan Pha of Yawnghwe flipped through
a sheaf of papers with a calmness that belied their harrowing contents. Read more
Thursday, October 4, 2007
An apology from Japan is sought over sex slaves - Activists say the government must also pay reparations to women forced into wartime brothels.
California | Local |
October 4, 2007
Gearing up for a historic world conference in Los Angeles on the
sexual enslavement of women and girls by the Japanese military, human
rights activists from around the world, including former sex slaves,
demanded Wednesday that Japan issue an official apology and make
reparations to the victims of Japan’s wartime crimes. Read more
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Khmer Rouge leader held
World |
September 19, 2007
Police arrested the top surviving leader of the Khmer Rouge, Nuon
Chea, today because of his role in the notorious Cambodian regime
that caused the deaths of 1.7 million people in the 1970s. Read more
Monday, September 17, 2007
Millions of pages of Iraqi pain
World |
September 17, 2007
Baghdad Staring directly at the camera, Zahra Badri begins: “I have not
had one good day in my life.” Read more
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Prosecutors face difficult Marine case
World |
August 30, 2007
The preliminary hearing for Marine Staff Sgt. Read more
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
THE NETHERLANDS
World |
August 21, 2007
Ex-Liberian leader’s trial postponed
Judges in The Hague postponed until January the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor as lawyers argued over whether victims of atrocities in Sierra Leone should testify. Read more
World in Brief / THE NETHERLANDS - Ex-Liberian leader’s trial postponed
World |
August 21, 2007
Judges in The Hague postponed until January the war crimes trial
of former Liberian President Charles Taylor as lawyers argued over
whether victims of atrocities in Sierra Leone should testify. Read more
Sunday, August 12, 2007
In Year Zero+32, still awaiting justice
World |
August 12, 2007
taprum, cambodia – Down a potholed dirt road from the Diamond
Crown Hotel and Casino, where Thai low-rollers place their bets on
blackjack and roulette, Brother No. Read more
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
THE WORLD - World in Brief / CAMBODIA - Khmer Rouge jailer charged with atrocities
World |
August 1, 2007
A former schoolteacher accused of presiding over a torture center was
charged with crimes against humanity, becoming the first top figure
of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge to be indicted by a United
Nations-backed tribunal in connection with atrocities that led to an
estimated 1.7 million deaths. Read more
Monday, June 25, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Rape of Nanking toll disputed
World |
June 20, 2007
A group of about 100 lawmakers from Japan’s ruling party said they
determined that the number of people killed by Japanese troops during
the Rape of Nanking has been grossly inflated. Read more
Sunday, May 27, 2007
U.N. makes a last-ditch effort for peace in Darfur
World |
May 27, 2007
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has put his personal diplomatic
clout on the line to end the bloodshed in Darfur, demanding a
cease-fire and fresh peace talks in a letter to Sudan’s president,
U.S. and Sudanese diplomats said Saturday. Read more
