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Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary dies during Cambodia trial
Ieng Sary, who co-founded Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge movement in 1970s, was its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to be put on trial for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, died Thursday morning. He was 87....
Tags: Cambodia, Vietnam, Government, International Court or Tribunal, Alzheimer's Disease
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Mark Yudof to step down as president of UC system in August
L.A. NOWUniversity of California President Mark G. Yudof announced Friday he would step down in August after what will be nearly five years of guiding the 10-campus system through one of its worst financial crises. Yudof, who is 68 and previously...... -
Catholic church has new pope; white smoke rises
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals elected a new pope to lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics on Wednesday, overcoming deep divisions to select the 266th pontiff in a remarkably fast conclave. Tens of thousands of people who braved cold rain to watch...
Tags: Elections, Government, The Pope, Christianity, Angelo Scola
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The Week in Pictures | March 4 – 10, 2013
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Pictures in the News | March 8, 2013
FrameworkFriday's Pictures in the News begins in India, where the All India Peace and Solidarity Organization members launch sky lanterns during International Women's Day in Hyderabad. The celebration wasn't so peaceful over in the Philippines, where protesters... -
Charges are dropped against Kenyan suspect
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.NAIROBI, Kenya -- The International Criminal Court's prosecutor dropped charges of crimes against humanity against a fellow defendant of Kenya's president-elect Monday, raising questions about whether the case against Uhuru Kenyatta will hold up as he...Tags: Elections, Government, International Court or Tribunal, Witnesses, Prosecution
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Gov. Brown sets election for Senate seat vacated by Michael Rubio
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday called a special election to fill the 16th District state Senate seat vacated last month by Michael Rubio. The primary will be May 21 and, if no candidate wins a majority, a runoff would be held July 23. Nobody...Tags: Elections, Government, Michael Rubio, Gloria Negrete McLeod, Politics
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Hugo Chavez's funeral and Gustavo Dudamel's passion for Venezuela
“Tell me,” Lazarus asks during the Last Supper Passover Seder in John Adams’ “The Gospel According to the Other Mary,” "why is this night different from all other nights?” The answer for Gustavo Dudamel on Thursday...
Tags: Government, Politics, Religion and Belief, Passover Seder, Culture
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Venezuela's 'president in charge' Maduro picks a running mate
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela’s new interim president, Nicolas Maduro, gave a clear sign Friday night that he will use political capital left by the late President Hugo Chavez to win election in his own right. In his acceptance speech to the...
Tags: Jesse Jackson, Elections, Government, Politics, Venezuela
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Use of torture by authorities has risen in Mexico, groups say
MEXICO CITY — On the eve of Mexico's Day of the Dead this year, authorities in Veracruz declared triumphantly that they had solved one of the decade's most notorious slayings of a journalist in Mexico. They trotted before reporters a sad-sack...Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Government, Journalism, Human Rights Watch, Felipe Calderon
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Funeral begins for Venezuela's Chavez
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.CARACAS, Venezuela -- The funeral ceremony for late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got underway Friday at a military base in the capital before 32 heads of state and with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra directed by Los Angeles conductor Gustavo...Tags: Elections, Government, Human Interest, Culture, Sebastian Pinera
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Body of Hugo Chavez to remain on view under glass
CARACAS, Venezuela -- After funeral services Friday with at least 33 heads of state expected to be in attendance, the body of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will be specially embalmed and ultimately placed on permanent public display in a glass case,...
Tags: Elections, Government, Dilma Rousseff, U.S. Embassy, Venezuela
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