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Prosecutor: Escape-savvy Taylor secure
Mar 31 2006 10:14PM (CT)
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Charles Taylor once broke out of a prison in Massachusetts and nearly slipped away this week before Nigeria could hand over the former Liberian president to an international court.
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Britain moves to transfer Taylor trial
Mar 31 2006 8:58PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Britain circulated a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Friday that would move the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor from Sierra Leone to the Netherlands because of the danger he poses by remaining in the region.
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Taylor's Liberia: One reporter's memories
Mar 31 2006 3:26PM (CT)
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - The severed fingers clinging to the rail of a river bridge. The 12-year-old boy drawing a picture of a bloody knife and a trail of red drops, trying to exorcise the ghosts of those he murdered.
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Mugabe criticizes whites as 'supremacists'
Mar 31 2006 2:46PM (CT)
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe criticized his nation's tiny white community Friday, saying few were repentant of colonial-era injustices against blacks or had integrated with blacks.
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Dozens dead in Chad after armed attack
Mar 31 2006 2:21PM (CT)
N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - An armed group crossed the border from Sudan and attacked a town in eastern Chad, leaving dozens dead on both sides of the conflict and forcing 4,000 civilians from their homes, a government official said Friday.
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Fire at Ugandan school dorm kills 10
Mar 31 2006 11:49AM (CT)
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - A fire destroyed a school dormitory where the children had been reading by candlelight, killing at least 10 of the students, police said Friday. Police and firefighters were searching for missing students in the elementary school in Kabarole, 200 miles west of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, said police spokesman Patrick Onyango.
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