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Pistorius 'shot girlfriend through door'"Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius put on his artificial legs and walked across his bedroom before firing four handgun rounds into the locked bathroom door, killing his cowering girlfriend in cold blood, prosecutors said More… |
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Arafat body to be exhumed in murder inquiryThe body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, eight years after his death, in an investigation to establish if he was murdered, a Palestinian official said on Saturday. A French court opened a murder More… |
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US army officer faces Afghan murder chargesArmy Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of killing Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage in Kandahar province last week, will be charged with 17 counts of murder, a US official said on Thursday. Earlier accounts of the incident, which h More… |
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Egypt tycoon Talaat Moustafa gets retrialAn Egyptian court ordered a retrial of property tycoon and politician Hesham Talaat Moustafa, serving a 15-year sentence for his role in the murder of a Lebanese singer. The former member of parliament and former chairman of property firm More… |
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Murder, torture, rape by Syria troops: UNA United Nations commission of inquiry on Syria said Syrian security forces had committed crimes against humanity including murder, torture and rape. It said the government of President Bashar al-Assad bore responsibility for the acts comm More… |
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Bahrain-link killer jailed for 24 yearsA man extradited to Britain from Bahrain last year after 11 years on the run has been sentenced to 24 years for murder. Lebanese national Yousef Ahmed Wahid, 42, was convicted at London's Old Bailey in August for the murder of Moroccan-bor More… |
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Briton sentenced to life for 2 murders in IraqAn Iraqi court sentenced a British security contractor on Monday to life in prison for killing two colleagues in 2009. Daniel Fitzsimons had faced a possible death sentence after he was arrested in August 2009 over the shootings of Paul Mc More… |
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Dubai court cuts sentence in Chechen murder caseA Dubai court on Wednesday reduced to three years the life sentences handed to two men for their role in the assassination of Sulim Yamadayev, a prominent foe of the Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Makhsood Jan Asmatov of Taj More… |
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Star's family drops case against tycoonThe family of a slain Lebanese pop diva has dropped its lawsuit against an Egyptian real estate moghul and former policeman accused of her murder, a judicial official said. The parents and brother "signed before a Lebanese notary to halt p More… |
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Dubai court jails two over Chechen warlord murderA Dubai court convicted two men on Monday of involvement in the 2009 assassination of Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai, and handed them a life sentence. The men, Makhsood Jan Asmatov of Tajikistan and More… |
