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Liberia’s Charles Taylor to begin appeal at The Hague

YoopyaJanuary 22, 2013January 15, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 22, 2013January 15, 20230931

Liberia’s jailed ex-President Charles Taylor is due to begin his appeal at a UN-backed special court in The Hague. Last May, the court sentenced him to...

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Islamist rebels gone from Malian town of Douentza

YoopyaJanuary 22, 2013

by YoopyaJanuary 22, 201305

SEGOU, Mali (AP) — Malian forces on Tuesday controlled the strategic town that was under extreme Islamist rule for four months, as the French-led military...

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Files show how LA church leaders shielded priests

YoopyaJanuary 22, 2013February 27, 2023

by YoopyaJanuary 22, 2013February 27, 202302316

Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony and other top Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles officials maneuvered behind the scenes to shield molester priests, provide damage control...

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Israel’s Netanyahu appears poised for third term

YoopyaJanuary 22, 2013

by YoopyaJanuary 22, 201305

JERUSALEM (AP) — With no viable alternative in sight, incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears poised to secure a third term in office following...

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China’s young in crisis of declining fitness

YoopyaJanuary 22, 2013

by YoopyaJanuary 22, 201301

BEIJING (AP) — Xiao Ru spent her last year of high school studying from morning until late at night. That didn’t help her complete one...

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Indonesia sentences UK woman to death over drugs

YoopyaJanuary 22, 2013

by YoopyaJanuary 22, 201304

BALI, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court sentenced a British grandmother to death on Tuesday for smuggling cocaine worth $2.5 million in her suitcase onto...

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Algeria finds dead Canadian militants as siege toll rises

YoopyaJanuary 21, 2013January 21, 2013

by YoopyaJanuary 21, 2013January 21, 201300

(Reuters) – Algerian forces have found the bodies of two Canadian Islamist fighters after a bloody siege at a desert gas plant, a security source...

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French troops take town in central Mali as rebels slip away

YoopyaJanuary 21, 2013January 21, 2013

by YoopyaJanuary 21, 2013January 21, 201305

(Reuters) – French and Malian armored columns rolled into the central Mali town of Diabaly on Monday after the al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels who seized...

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Cruise ship rescues French sailor Alain Delord off Tasmania

YoopyaJanuary 20, 2013

by YoopyaJanuary 20, 201306

A French sailor who had spent three days adrift in a life raft in the Southern Ocean off the coast of Tasmania in Australia has...

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Algeria crisis: Hostage death toll ‘could rise’

YoopyaJanuary 20, 2013

by YoopyaJanuary 20, 201302

The death toll of foreign and Algerian workers taken hostage during a siege at a desert gas facility may rise from 23, an Algerian minister...