Romanian Leader Urged to Probe 1989 Deaths
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Romanians who fought in the country's 1989 revolution are asking a newly elected president to investigate why so many former communist officials kept their jobs through the 1990s, well after the downfall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
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Romania has asked American authorities to hand over a U.S. Marine who left the country after he allegedly was involved in a traffic accident that killed a Romanian rock star, the Foreign Ministry said.
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The head of Nato calls for an investigation into the killing of 25 civilians in an air strike in southern Afghanistan.
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TEHRAN -- Iran's president called yesterday for an investigation into journalists' allegations that they were tortured into confessing to charges such as insulting sacred beliefs and endangering national security after publishing articles critical of conservatives in the government. About 20 journalists from print, Internet, and other media outlets have been detained in Iran since a crackdown on the proreform press ...
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Romania's president presented a report Monday denouncing the former Communist regime as "criminal and illegitimate" and guilty of committing crimes against humanity - the country's first such official ...Comment
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Text of report in English by Romanian news agency Rompres  Bucharest, Feb 19 (Rompres) -President Traian Basescu on Monday 19 February lashed out at Dinu Patriciu, Sorin Ovidiu Vantu and Dan Voiculescu for what he said was their use of media holdings for political struggle.
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Serbian police are to launch an  investigation into whether late leader Slobodan Milosevic&#39;s  widow and son were involved in a cigarette smuggling ring,  authorities said on Monday.
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Head of the European Commission Delegation in Romania Jonathan Scheele held a meeting on Tuesday in Bucharest with Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu and highlighted that Romania should seriously prepare ...
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The father of a soldier who died at Deepcut Barracks wants a review of the probe into her death made public.
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Kofi Annan calls for probe into civil rights abuses as machete gangs and arsonists settle old scores
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BUCHAREST, Romania  - Dozens of former fighters in the 1989 uprising that toppled communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu rallied Friday in a central Bucharest square to demand that authorities investigate alleged frauds in last Sunday's parliamentary and presidential elections.
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The grandson of Benito Mussolini has   lodged a legal request to exhume the body of Italy's fascist   dictator to find out how "Il Duce" really died, his lawyer told   Reuters on Monday.
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Amnesty International has urged the Thai government to impartially investigate the deaths of at least 84 protesters in the south of the country.
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The Government of Romania is to offer its former king 30m ( 20.7m) in compensation for historic property seized by the ousted communist regime.
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Honduras wants to revive cases accusing officials of murder and torture in a 1980s dirty war against leftists when 184 people disappeared and were presumed dead at the hands of death squads, the president said on Monday.
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The inquiry into the killing of   a former Lebanese prime minister has asked several countries to   help identify the presumed suicide bomber from a tooth and   other pieces of DNA, the chief investigator told the U.N.   Security Council on Friday.
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French President Jacques Chirac called Monday for an international investigation into the Beirut explosion which killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. "France calls for an international ...