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Stores shut, schools close amid curfew by Rio drug dealers
Reuters* Curfew follows police shootout that killed drug dealer * More than 5,400 children turned away from schools By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 (Reuters) - Drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro ordered shops closed in one of its biggest slums early...Tags: Criminals, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Epidemics and Plagues, Drug Trafficking
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South Sudan says war crimes court persecutes Africans
ReutersJUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said on Thursday his country would never become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying it appeared to be preoccupied with prosecuting African leaders. "It seems that this thing has...Tags: African Union, Kenya, Salva Kiir Mayardit, Crime, Law and Justice, Sudan
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EU probes ally of Kosovo PM, ambassador for war crimes
ReutersPRISTINA (Reuters) - European Union police said on Thursday they had arrested five people, including a wartime ally of Kosovo's prime minister, and were investigating the ambassador to Albania on suspicion of war crimes during Kosovo's 1998-99 conflict....Tags: European Union, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Organizations, Hashim Thaci, Armed Conflicts
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Ally of Kosovo PM among five arrested for war crimes
Reuters* Five arrested for war crimes during 1998-99 war * Accused of crimes against civilians held by guerrillas PRISTINA, May 23 (Reuters) - A close wartime ally of Kosovo's prime minister was among five people arrested by European Union police on Thursday...Tags: Government, NATO, European Union, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice
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Officials say more evidence being gathered as Benghazi suspects remain under surveillance
AP Intelligence WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The White House believes there is enough proof for a military force to...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Elections, Rentals, White House, Christopher Stevens
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Chief Palestinian peace negotiator backs Kerry's efforts
Reuters* Kerry to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah on Thursday, Friday * Palestinian negotiator: no conditions on return to talks * Kerry working "below the radar" to revive peace talks By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, May 20 (Reuters) - The top Palestinian...Tags: Palestine, United Nations, International Criminal Court, Barack Obama, West Bank
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New videos from Syria spotlight conflict's brutality
New video surfaced on the Internet on Thursday purporting to show Syrian rebel fighters killing 11 prisoners they accused of taking part in massacres by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. It was the latest of many grisly videos that have...Tags: Murder, Human Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, International Court or Tribunal
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RPT-ANALYSIS-Syria's savagery will thwart reconciliation
Reuters(Repeats with no changes) * Warring parties film themselves committing atrocities * Neither side condemns brutality in their own ranks * Balkans, Lebanon show savagery delays reconciliation By Oliver Holmes BEIRUT, May 14 (Reuters) - Syrian...Tags: National Government, Human Rights, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Islam, Political Dissent
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Ex-Chicagoan suspected of being Auschwitz guard arrested in Germany
Tribune reporterA suspected Auschwitz concentration camp guard and former Chicago resident was arrested Monday in Germany, according to a Nazi-hunting group. Prosecutors in Stuttgart did not name the 93-year-old man, but said he was arrested on "strong suspicion" of...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Munich (Germany), John Demjanjuk, Migration, Ashburn
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Guatemala government must apologize after Rios Montt verdict -judge
ReutersBy Mike McDonald GUATEMALA CITY, May 13 (Reuters) - A Guatemalan court ordered the government on Monday to apologize for atrocities committed against indigenous people in the country's civil war after former dictator Efrain Rios Montt was convicted of...Tags: Indigenous People, National Government, Human Rights, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Guatemala's Maya finally find justice over civil war crimes
ReutersBy Mike McDonald GUATEMALA CITY, May 12 (Reuters) - Ana Caba fled her home to live in remote mountains for nearly a decade after Guatemalan troops razed her indigenous Maya village and dozens like it in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign in the early...Tags: Murder, Arts and Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hate Crimes, International Court or Tribunal
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