Slovenia digs up proof of slaughter
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LANCOVO, Slovenia  - After digging for two hours in a chilly forest clearing, the workers had their evidence: bones and the soil-covered, blackened remnant of a shoe confirmed this was a secret mass grave from World War Two.
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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HATRA, Iraq  - Investigators have conducted their  first scientific exhumation of Iraq's "killing fields,"  discovering hundreds of bodies which they hope will help  convict Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity.
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FRAIJANES, Guatemala  - Guatemala is investigating accusations that police summarily executed seven prisoners during the takeover earlier this year of an infamous jail controlled by inmates for over a decade.
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Serbia started an investigation  on Tuesday into a mass grave believed to contain up to 500  Albanian victims of the Kosovo war, a reminder of why the  United Nations is considering independence for the province.
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Photographs which may show the last moments of a Briton murdered in Kenya 16 years ago are scrutinised by police.
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The Israeli army says it is investigating newspaper claims of the abuse of dead Palestinians by its soldiers.
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Police are due to release the results of post-mortem examinations on a couple from West Sussex.
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PEIO, Italy - An amateur Italian historian has found the preserved bodies of three Austro-Hungarian soldiers in an Alpine glacier, 86 years after they were killed in World War One.
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The International Court of Justice on Monday has said in a landmark ruling that the 1995 massacre of nearly 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica was genocide, confirming an earlier ruling by the UN war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia.
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Forensic experts have exhumed 249 bodies from a mass grave in northeastern Bosnia containing victims of the country's devastating 1992-95 war, an official said Thursday.
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Investigations of prehistoric burial sites in Europe indicate that the region's population may have practiced ritual human sacrifice, according to a new study.
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MANILA, Aug. 31 -- Soldiers have found mass graves believed to hold the remains of up to 300 people who were allegedly killed by communist guerrillas in the 1980s during a purge of suspected spies in the Philippines' remote east, officials said Thursday.
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CAIRO -- A claim of responsibility for the downing of two Russian planes appeared yesterday on a Muslim militant website. And experts have found traces of explosives in the wreckage of the Tu-154 passenger
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Forensic experts have exhumed 100 bodies from a single mass grave in northwestern Bosnia dating to the 1992-95 Bosnian war, an official said Thursday.
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THE HAGUE: The International Court of Justice on Monday for the first time called the massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 an act of genocide, but determined that Serbia itself was not guilty of ...Comment
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The highest U.N. court rules on  Monday whether Serbia committed genocide through the killing,  rape and ethnic cleansing that ravaged Bosnia during the  1992-95 war, in one of the biggest cases in its 60-year  history.