Argentine ex-navy officer on genocide, torture trial in Spain
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An Argentine former navy officer went on trial accused of genocide and serious human rights abuses under his country's dictatorship, including throwing prisoners into the ocean from helicopters.
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Description: A judge in Chile charges former Gen. Augusto Pinochet with murder and kidnapping. The controversial dictator has been accused of human rights violations for years and was arrested by Spain in the late 1990s.
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A judge in Argentina has paved the way for trying two notorious figures from the former military government.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - An Argentine court on  Wednesday charged former President Fernando de la Rua with  misusing public funds, three years after a public outcry forced  him to leave office early.
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An Argentine ex-officer accused of human rights abuses -- including dumping live prisoners into the ocean from helicopters -- during his country's so-called "dirty war" in the 1970s, is due in the dock Friday despite going on a hunger strike.
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A Spanish trial began on Thursday of 29  people charged with involvement in the Madrid train bombings,  which killed 191 people three years ago in the deadliest al  Qaeda-related attack in Europe.
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Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar is called to testify before the panel investigating the Madrid bombings.
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Almost a decade after admitting he took part in a brutal rape and murder, a former Navy sailor may now go free. His confession, it turns out, could have been false
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The trial opens of 29 mostly Moroccan suspects charged with involvement in the Madrid train bomb attacks in March 2004, which killed 191 people and injured 1,824 in the worst terror strike Spain has ever known.
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A former military officer on trial for the mass killing of Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s testified Thursday he was defending the country from Iran and that U.S. commanders should also face prosecution for waging an "illegal" war in Iraq.
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Former Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar  has been summoned before a parliamentary commission  investigating the Madrid train bombings to give his version of  the most devastating attack in modern Spanish history.
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Chile's navy admits that torture took place on one of its training ships soon after the 1973 military coup.
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On trial for Europe's deadliest al Qaeda-inspired attack, a former Spanish miner on Tuesday denied he supplied explosives used by Islamist militants in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people.
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Spain said on Friday it had agreed to  extradite to Argentina an ex-member of a death squad which  tortured and killed people in the early 1970s, just before the  South American country's notorious "Dirty War."
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Chilean Army chief General Juan Cheyre has admitted to torture in the army committed during the military regime of Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990, local mediareported Friday.
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A former Guatemalan dictator said a Spanish judge&#039;s order for his arrest was unfounded and insisted that as president he was not aware of any atrocities committed by military officials during the country&#039;s civil war.
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Legal action begins against Argentine's ex-President de la Rua over the killing of five people during riots in 2001.