S.Leone war crimes indictee Hinga Norman dies
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A former Sierra Leonean militia leader, whose fighters were accused of human sacrifice and cannibalism during a civil war, has died weeks before the verdict was due in his war crimes trial.
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Retired Archbishop James Aloysius Hickey, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the nation's capital for two decades, died Sunday. He was 84.
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A convicted killer who spent more than a decade on the run with a former prison warden's wife died Wednesday in a prison infirmary, officials said.
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A lobby group urges Sierra Leone's authorities to find those who brutally killed a leading gay rights activist.
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UN prosecutor Carla Del Ponte on Monday told judges that former Kosovo prime minister Ramush Haradinaj was a warlord and a gangster, as he went on trial for war crimes.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor goes on trial next week charged with instigating murder, rape and terrorism during Sierra Leone's civil war in a case prosecutors say could end impunity for African strongmen.
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MELBOURNE, Australia -- Peter Norman, the Australian who stood alongside the U.S. athletes staging the civil rights protest from the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 64.
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Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter who supported black US sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos in their silent protest for equal rights on the medals podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, died yesterday of a heart attack at his home in Melbourne, Australia. He was 64.
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The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted a high-ranking Bosnian Serb leader Wednesday of torture, deportation, and other crimes against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats, but acquitted him of genocide. He was sentenced to 32 years in prison.
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The second-in-command of the Ugandan rebel LRA was killed by fellow fighters, a diplomatic briefing claims.
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A U.N. tribunal Tuesday convicted a former Rwandan military commander of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1994 genocide and sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
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Bangladesh opposition Awami League&#39;s central leader Ivy Rahman, fatally wounded in the Aug 21 bomb attack on the party rally in Dhaka, died in the army hospital on Tuesday.
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The most prominent armed group in oil-rich southern Nigeria said said one of its presumed leaders, extradited last week from Angola, reportedly died from gunshot wounds Tuesday in a Nigerian military hospital.
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The murder created a South African icon. On Sept. 12, 1998, a crowd of young men fatally beat Gugu Dlamini, 36, in her village in rural KwaZulu-Natal province after she revealed that she carried HIV.
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A former Rwandan army major is sentenced to 20 years for murdering 10 UN peacekeepers in the 1994 genocide.
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Maurice Papon, who was convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in deporting Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died, his lawyer said Saturday. He was 96.
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Rosamund Carr, a New Jersey fashion designer who lived a colorful and tragic life for more than a half century in tumultuous central Africa, has died in Rwanda, friends and employees have said.