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Fatou Bensouda, who takes over at ICC next month, rejects view that court is 'pro-western, anti-African'The new chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) has launched a combative defence of the institution, rejecting the view that it is "a pro-western, anti-African court".Fatou Bensouda, from Gambia,...(more)
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Guns are increasingly popular with well-off Indian women who feel that they should be able to defend themselves against crimeWhen Dr Harveen Kaur Sidhu travels from her home in an upmarket neighbourhood of the north-western Indian city of Chandigarh, she always slips her lightweight .22 revolver...(more)
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Climbers from China, Germany, Canada and South Korea killed as hundreds make bid for the summit after high winds liftThe number of climbers who have died climbing Mount Everest this season has risen to eight, after the body of a missing Chinese climber was found at...(more)
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Jaczko had attempted to push through new safety regulations in the wake of Fukushima but was also accused of harassmentGregory Jaczko, the beleaguered US nuclear regulator, has announced he is stepping down from his post after months of bureaucratic warfare over the safety of America's ageing...(more)
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President offers no concessions to opposition demonstrators as trusted loyalists are given key government postsRussia's president, Vladimir Putin, has unveiled his new government , with a line-up that critics described as uninspiring and which offered no concessions to the opposition demonstrators who have taken to the...(more)
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Hector Christie charged for allegedly vandalising crops and property at government-funded Rothamsted ResearchA man has been charged with criminal damage to property at a research station housing a field trial of genetically modified wheat, according to Hertfordshire police.Hector Christie, 50, from Tapeley Park Lodge, Instow, in...(more)
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President Obama refuses to meet Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari as anti-Nato demonstrators plan more protests12.40pm: Our Adam Gabbatt is covering the protest outside Boeing headquarters in Chicago. From what we saw of the live video stream of the protest, the demonstrators are pretending to be...(more)
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President Obama won't meet with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. U.S. officials are furious over Pakistan's refusal to reopen supply routes to Afghanistan.CHICAGO — As thousands of protesters marched in the streets, President Obama welcomed more than 60 world leaders to his heavily guarded hometown for...(more)
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Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago Sunday, airing grievances about war and a host of other complaints as world leaders assembled for a NATO summit. The protest was largely peaceful until the end, when a small group of demonstrators clashed with a line of police...(more)
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Sole person convicted of 1988 plane bombing that killed 270 people died at home in Libya, his brother tells ReutersThe former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people has died, his brother has said.Abdelbaset al-Megrahi died at home aged 59,...(more)
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Libyan intelligence officer who maintained that his conviction for the Lockerbie plane bombing was wrongAbdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing and released from prison in Scotland amid a storm of international controversy in August 2009, has died aged 60 of cancer. He protested...(more)
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese soldiers shot dead a Sunni cleric and a second member of an anti-Assad Lebanese political alliance in northern Lebanon on Sunday, security sources said.
