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Sierra Leone tribunal presses Nigeria
Sep 30 2005 8:44PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N.-backed tribunal prosecuting war crimes in Sierra Leone is pressuring Nigeria to hand over former Liberian President Charles Taylor for trial and is searching for a rebel leader, the court's chief prosecutor said Friday.
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S. African gets life for lion-pen death
Sep 30 2005 7:00PM (CT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - In a case that shocked South Africa for its brutality, a white farmer was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the murder of one of his black workers, who was attacked with machetes, tied up and thrown into a lion enclosure, where he was devoured.
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Foreign militants in Congo ignore deadline
Sep 30 2005 2:26PM (CT)
BUKAVU, Congo (AP) - Thousands of foreign militiamen in Congo appeared to ignore Friday's deadline to leave this central African country or be evicted by force, the government said.
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Algerians overwhelmingly back peace plan
Sep 30 2005 11:55AM (CT)
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Algerians overwhelmingly approved a peace plan that provides a broad amnesty for Islamic extremists but which critics denounced as a whitewash of crimes committed during a bloody internal war, official referendum results showed Friday.
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Rwandan pleads innocent to genocide charge
Sep 30 2005 10:46AM (CT)
ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) - A former technical director at a radio station that promoted Rwanda's 1994 genocide pleaded innocent Friday to five counts of genocide and crimes against humanity at the U.N. tribunal trying accused masterminds of the 100-day slaughter.
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