Taylor trial hears how child was dismembered
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Child soldiers serving with rebels in Sierra Leone dismembered a screaming boy before tossing him in a toilet pit, a pastor who survived a massacre told the trial of Charles Taylor on Tuesday.
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Relatives of a man who murdered a family of four testified Friday that his childhood was filled with abuse, but jurors deciding whether he should be executed also heard a witness describe being stabbed in his mouth, face and neck in another merciless attack the defendant confessed to.
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A Sierra Leone clergyman brought the horrors of his country's civil war to a courtroom Tuesday, becoming the first survivor of the carnage to testify at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.
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The forensic pathologist who examined the body of Michael Harper Jr. testified Thursday he had never seen a body so mutilated and perforated with knife wounds.
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The family of a four-year-old boy who was stabbed to death say they cannot believe what has happened.
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The first witness in the trial of hte former Liberian President talks, not about atrocities, but about "blood diamonds"
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The war crimes trial of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor is to resume in The Hague after a six-month gap.
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THE HAGUE, June 4 -- The trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, the highest-ranking African leader to face an international war crimes court, began Monday with the defendant refusing to leave his cell and prosecutors alleging that his fighters hacked off civilians' hands and legs, forced...
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During the first day of testimony in the trial of a man accused of sexually assaulting five young men, a teenager said Monday that he was abducted from his driveway, bound with zip ties, blindfolded and forced to perform a sex act at gunpoint.
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A four-year-old girl died from multiple, brutal injuries, a court hears as her mother goes on trial for murder.
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Robert Blake's murder trial resumed Tuesday after a holiday recess with a witness testifying that the actor's cries for help for his bleeding wife seemed insincere.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A 56-year-old Kurdish-American woman told of seeing people sickened and dying during an alleged chemical attack carried out by Saddam Hussein's forces, as the genocide trial of the ex-president resumed Monday after nearly a three-week break.
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A medical examiner testifying in the assault trial of a former CIA contractor said Friday that an Afghan detainee the defendant interrogated probably died from a beating, but a defense expert said there's too little information to know the cause of death.
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Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the murder trial of a sex offender accused of kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford from her Florida home and burying her alive in trash bags.
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The prosecutor in the war-crimes trial of ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor discusses the tribunal's message and the challenges that lie ahead.
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A woman suggested binding her developmentally disabled 3-year-old foster son inside a closet, making her responsible for his death even if she did not intend it, prosecutors said Thursday as her murder trial opened.
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Charles Taylor's defense attorney argued Friday that a key prosecution witness at the former Liberian president's war crimes trial was mentally unstable.