Supreme Court challenges lawyer for Rwandan accused of triggering slaughter
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OTTAWA (CP) - A Supreme Court justice challenged a lawyer Wednesday who defended his Rwandan client's call in 1992 for the extermination of ethnic Tutsis prior to a bloody genocide in the African country.
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Rwanda said on Friday it had recalled  its ambassador to Paris and might cut diplomatic ties after a  French judge called for President Paul Kagame to be tried for  planning the killing of a former president.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame denounced  as "bullying and arrogant" a French judge's call for him to  face a U.N. court over a 1994 plane crash that killed the  country's leader and sparked a genocide of 800,000 people.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Feb. 8 -- A Cambodian genocide victim confronted a former Khmer Rouge leader in a courtroom here Friday, demanding to know who was responsible for the "hellish regime" that killed about 1.7 million people, including her parents.
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Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh's  confessed killer sought leniency in a Supreme Court appeal on  Wednesday, with his lawyer arguing he was mentally ill when he  attacked her and should not be jailed for murder.
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BUJUMBURA : The Burundian Hutu rebel group that said it massacred 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees earlier this month said it was ready to face an &quot;international court&quot; if other parties involved in Burundi in the last 40 years also stood trial.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame issued a blistering attack against a French judge who called for his prosecution over alleged complicity in the death of the country's former leader, the incident that sparked the 1994 genocide.
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An Illinois man who rights groups  say was tortured and wrongly imprisoned for murder 12 years ago  has lost a bid to have his case heard by an international  court.
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Six Rwandan citizens file a lawsuit accusing French troops of complicity in genocide.
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A Rwandan ex-army officer denied helping plan the central African country's 1994 genocide and distributing weapons to some of the killers, the U.N. court trying the architects of the slaughter said Tuesday.
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The widow of ex-Rwandan President Habyarimana is to hear if she can claim asylum in France in an appeal ruling.
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Nicaraguan prosecutors on Wednesday filed an appeal to the country's Supreme Court to overturn the acquittal of a U.S. man on charges of killing his Nicaraguan girlfriend, blocking efforts to win his release.
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A former contestant on Bravo's "Top Chef" was beaten by attackers yelling anti-gay slurs, her lawyer said.
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Attorneys for Zacarias Moussaoui Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bar the government from seeking the death penalty and from presenting evidence related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at his trial.
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The family of a boy who died in an E.coli outbreak want a manslaughter charge against a butcher reconsidered.
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Rwandan Justice Minister Tharicisse Karugarama called Tuesday for legal proceedings against French politicians who ignored signs of the 1994 genocide in his country.
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A lawyer for a Harvard graduate student accused of stabbing a teenager to death said Monday the scholar was defending himself from an "unrelenting" beating, but prosecutors called him a drunken aggressor who had his knife out even before the fight began.