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Congo has failed to disarm Rwandan rebels: UN
PARIS (AFP) - Rwandan Hutu rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have thwarted UN-led attempts to disarm them militarily and global action is needed to cut off their financing, UN experts say.
Nations:Rwanda United Arab Emirates France People:Ban Ki-moon Source:(AFP)
2009-11-25
Soviet H-bomb scientist Ginzburg dies
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vitaly Ginzburg, a Russian physicist who survived Stalin's purges by working on the Soviet atomic bomb project and later won the Nobel Prize for physics, died in Moscow late on Sunday after a long illness. He was 93.
Nations:Russia People:Vladimir Putin Source:(Reuters)
2009-11-09
Former Argentine military ruler in Dirty War trial
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The last military president in Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship went on trial on Monday in a makeshift courtroom in a sports arena on charges of kidnapping, torture and murder of 56 people in a concentration camp.
Nations:Argentina Source:(Reuters)
2009-11-02
France fines black comic for anti-Semitism
PARIS (AFP) - French judges ordered a far-right black comedian to pay 20,000 euros (30,000 dollars) Tuesday over an anti-Semitic stunt during a stage show in which he invited a notorious Holocaust denier onto stage.
Nations:France Activities:Holocaust Source:(AFP)
2009-10-27
Karadzic shuns war crimes trial, court to proceed
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic boycotted the start of his trial for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two, but judges said they would proceed without him if he stayed away.
Nations:Serbia Bosnia South Korea People:Radovan Karadzic Slobodan Milosevic
2009-10-26
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