Posts Tagged ‘former-leader’

New museums in Libya reflect war experience

Monday, January 30th, 2012

MISURATA, Libya — Eight months after revolutionaries took control of Misurata, a strategic and bloody battlefield in Libya’s uprising against former leader Moammar Gaddafi , people are going about their lives once more. Read full article > >

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New Libya torture claims emerge

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

The BBC hears accounts from prison inmates in Libya suggesting that supporters of former leader Col Gaddafi are being tortured in detention.

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New Libya torture claims emerge

VIDEO: Is N Korea’s grief ‘choreographed’?

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

Thousands of North Koreans are attending the funeral for the former leader Kim Jong-il, many of whom have been seen crying and wailing on state television.

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VIDEO: Is N Korea’s grief ‘choreographed’?

Man convicted of JFK airport plot

Friday, May 27th, 2011

A former leader of the Shia Muslim community in Trinidad is convicted of taking part in a failed plot to blow up fuel tanks at New York’s JFK airport.

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Man convicted of JFK airport plot

Chile to exhume Salvador Allende

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Chile is set to exhume the remains of former leader Salvador Allende to try to determine whether he was murdered or killed himself in 1973.

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Weapons uncovered in Ivory Coast

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

French troops in Ivory Coast discover several large arms caches they say would have been used by former leader Laurent Gbagbo.

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Weapons uncovered in Ivory Coast

U.N.: Ivory Coast violence must stop

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

The chief of the United Nations has called for President Alassane Ouattara to ensure there is no retaliation against supporters of a former leader whose refusal to step aside spurred a civil war.

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U.N.: Ivory Coast violence must stop

Ex-council leader in sex inquiry

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

The former leader of Worcestershire County Council is investigated by police for an alleged sexual offence 30 years ago.

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Hume named ‘Ireland’s greatest’

Saturday, October 23rd, 2010

The former leader of the SDLP, John Hume, has been named the winner of Ireland’s Greatest person series.

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Hume named ‘Ireland’s greatest’

Ex-Mend chief arrested for blasts

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

A former leader of the Nigerian militant group Mend, Henry Okah, is arrested in South Africa, after two blasts on Friday which killed 12 in Abuja.

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Ex-Conservative leader loses seat

Friday, September 10th, 2010

The former leader of the Tories on Norwich City Council loses his seat as the coalition parties falter in a series of by-elections.

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