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Aug 3 2009
Europe’s top human rights watchdog launched a probe Monday into Serb allegations that ethnic Albanian guerrillas kidnapped Serb civilians during Kosovo’s war, removed their organs and sold the body parts on the black market. Leading the...
Aug 1 2009
When Eta took up arms 50 years ago in pursuit of an independent Basque homeland, Spain was an international pariah in the grip of Franco’s dictatorship, the Basque language was banned and political parties were illegal. Many considered it...
Jul 25 2009
An Iranian passenger plane burst into flames and skidded off the runway during a landing attempt, killing 17 people. Horrifying footage from Iran’s PressTV showed the front end of the plane had been sheared off, leaving mangled wreckage where the...
Jul 16 2009
A prominent human rights worker who for a decade documented kidnappings and killings in Chechnya was snatched outside her home on Wednesday and found a few hours later near a highway in a neighboring republic, dead of gunshot wounds to the head and...
Jul 16 2009
A Spanish woman believed to be the world’s oldest mother after giving birth at the age of 66 has died of cancer, leaving behind 2-year-old twins. Less than three years ago, Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, who traveled from her home in Spain to...
Jul 16 2009
It seems there’s some truth to the saying “There is no sex in the Soviet Union.” When Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan hit cinema screens in 2006, few were...
Jul 4 2009
When Martin Jones met his wife four years ago, he never imagined that one day he would get to see what she looked like. The 42-year-old builder was left blind after an accident at work more than a decade ago. But a remarkable operation - which...
Jun 30 2009
The world’s central bankers have warned that the British economy faces relapsing into another recession – the much-feared “double dip” downturn. Related articles * The banker who could not live with his shame * Ford says the...
Jun 24 2009
Forensic accountants are investigating irregularities at the London Development Agency after discovering a £100 million hole in its 2012 Olympics accounts, The Times has learnt. A team from KPMG has been called in to find the source of the...
Jun 24 2009
The five elderly Kenyans who stood on the steps of the Royal Courts of Justice had, until yesterday, never set foot outside of Africa. They had travelled 4,000 miles to London to secure an apology – and compensation – from the British Government...