Posts Tagged ‘killings’

Diplomatic Push on Libya Intensifies

Friday, February 25th, 2011

The world should intervene in Libya to stop the killings and bloodshed there, a senior United Nations official said Friday.

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‘I knew nothing’ – murder accused

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Hazel Stewart who is accused of a double murder, said she did not know her lover’s wife’s body was in his car on the night of the killings, a court in Coleraine has heard.

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‘I knew nothing’ – murder accused

Bahrain protesters camp at landmark

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Thousands of activists camped out at the foot of a landmark after Bahrain’s king pledged to consider reforms and investigate the killings of two demonstrators.

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Why would a father murder his daughter?

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

One of the most notorious cases of “honour killings” in the West was that of Hina Saleem, who was killed in Italy by her father who claimed she had become too western.

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Afghan pledge on Taliban stoning

Thursday, January 27th, 2011

The men who stoned a couple to death in north Afghanistan will be brought to justice, say officials, after footage of the killings comes to light.

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Mexican activist Chavez murdered

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Susana Chavez, a woman activist who highlighted the killings of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez in the 1990s, is found murdered in the border city.

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Man blamed for 80% of Juarez killings

Monday, November 29th, 2010

An alleged gang member who police say was behind 80 percent of the killings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, over the past 16 months, was arrested over the weekend, officials said.

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Mexican Drug Gang Leader Confesses to Killings

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Arturo Gallegos Castrellón, leader of the gang Los Aztecas, claimed to have ordered 80 percent of the killings in Juárez in the last 15 months.

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Judge to review Massereene case

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Two men accused of murdering two soldiers at Massereene barracks last year will find out next week if they are to stand trial for the killings.

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A Second Rwandan Genocide?

Friday, October 1st, 2010

The U.N. has just released a report on the killings of Hutu civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwandan and Ugandan forces. The report says the killings, which occurred between 1993 and 2003, could be considered “crimes of genocide” and…

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In Triple Murder Trial, Missing Man Looms Large

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

New details are emerging about the defendant not yet on trial for the killings of three people in Cheshire, Conn.

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In Triple Murder Trial, Missing Man Looms Large

Mexico: Gunmen behind massacre ID’d

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Six of the suspected gunmen responsible for the killings of 72 migrants in Mexico have been identified, Mexican authorities said Monday, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.

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Colombia investigates web hitlist

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

Colombian police investigate the killings of three youths whose names had appeared on hitlists published on a social networking site.

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