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Zimbabwe officials refuse entry to UN investigator despite ministry invitation
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The United Nations? chief torture investigator was stranded at Harare airport last night, barred from entering Zimbabwe even though he had been invited by the country?s Government.
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28/10/2009 10:02 PM
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Sara Palin waits to bank on political memoir Going Rogue: An American Life
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Sarah Palin has earned priceless name recognition by running for the US vice-presidency, but not, as yet, untold wealth. The former Alaska Governor and potential presidential candidate has so far been paid $1.25 million for her memoirs, according to disclosure statements $? a fraction of the multimillion-dollar advance she was said to have received.
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28/10/2009 10:01 PM
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Diver David Swain killed wife Shelley Tyre in near-perfect murder
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A former politician faces life behind bars after being found guilty of drowning his wife during a scuba-diving trip in what prosecutors called a nearperfect murder in the British Virgin Islands a decade ago.
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28/10/2009 10:01 PM
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Juror's wrong kind of oaths threaten John Gotti Jr trial
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A foul-mouthed juror has created disarray in the latest trial of John Gotti Jr, throwing doubt on the fourth attempt to convict the alleged New York crime boss in five years.
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28/10/2009 10:01 PM
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Sick Silvio Berlusconi phones TV show to rant at ?conspirators?
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Silvio Berlusconi may be too ill to attend the European summit in Brussels today but he was fit enough to call a television show to berate the media and the Italian legal system.
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28/10/2009 10:01 PM
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Tehran court gives British Embassy ?plotter? a four-year sentence
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A senior Iranian employee of the British Embassy in Tehran has been given a four-year prison sentence after being found guilty of fomenting violence at the behest of the British Government, The Times has learnt.
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28/10/2009 10:01 PM
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Commanders prepare to persuade Barack Obama to approve Afghanistan surge
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The Pentagon was preparing yesterday for the seventh and possibly last big White House strategy session before President Obama makes his long-awaited decision on how to respond to urgent military requests for more US troops in Afghanistan.
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28/10/2009 10:01 PM
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The Boere and Demjanjuk trials are about the truth, not punishing old men
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Hunting Nazis has always needed special skills: a command of international law, a precise sense of the logistics of the Holocaust, a nose for archival discovery and the readiness to wear down shoes in pursuit of a suspect.
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28/10/2009 10:01 PM
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Six officers wounded in Greek police station attack
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A Greek policewoman was in critical condition yesterday after a machinegun attack on a north Athens police station. The incident poses the first security test for the country?s three-week-old socialist Government.
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28/10/2009 10:01 PM
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Pilots who missed airport by 150 miles have flying licences revoked
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Two pilots who overshot their destination airport by 150 miles (240km) have had their flying licences revoked.
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28/10/2009 10:01 PM
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Nazi hitman Heinrich Boere finally faces court for killing Dutch fighters
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When Heinrich Boere is asked how he was able to shoot three Dutch resistance fighters, he tells interviewers: ?Not difficult, you just curled your finger around the trigger and pulled. Bang!? And then he laughs.
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28/10/2009 10:01 PM
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Teacher held over 'black widow serial killings' in Japan
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It looked like a straightforward suicide ? and yet, when Yoshiyuki Oide was found dead in his car from carbon monoxide poisoning, something did not make sense.
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28/10/2009 10:00 PM
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