Archive for lipiec, 2008

Ex-fugitive Karadzic in U.N. court

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic listens to the indictment against him, detailing atrocities he is alleged to have overseen during the 1990's. (msnbc.com)Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared at the U.N.’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal for the first time Thursday, telling the judge he would defend himself against  genocide charges.

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  • Police have uncovered the mutilated remains of at least five children on the Channel Island of Jersey.

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  • American college student Amanda Knox has been jailed in Italy for the past nine months, suspected of being involved in the murder of her roommate. TODAY’s Meredith Vieira talks to her family about the case. (Today Show)Amanda Knox, an American student who has been held with two others in Italy on suspicion of the murder of her roommate, is not the sex-crazed young woman the international media have portrayed her to be, her family maintain. “The evidence is not there,” her mother said.

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  • the monkeys who were fired into orbit to test spaceships and subjected to experiments on Earth to help develop new medical treatments.Once the pride of Soviet science, Sukhumi’s Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy is now a shadow of the pioneering center that helped defeat polio and saved countless thousands of lives in World War Two with penicillin treatments.

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  • A panel today offered new details about how Blair, faced with Saudi threats to end cooperation on counterterrorism, personally intervened to scuttle an investigation into billions of dollars in allegedly improper payments made by British Aerospace Systems to obtain Saudi contracts.

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  • Pace proves key to Hurdle success

    Rookie rider Paul Townend was the toast of Ballybrit as Indian Pace gave him the biggest victory of his fledgling career in the Guinness Galway Hurdle.

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  • Retief Goosen was the early front-runner at Firestone Country Club today as the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational got under way in Akron, Ohio.

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  • FA charges Barton

    Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton has been charged with violent conduct by the Football Association over his assault on Ousmane Dabo 15 months ago.

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  • Murphy signs Black Cats extension

    Daryl Murphy has signed a one-year extension to his Sunderland contract.

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  • Indian pace claims Hurdle

    Indian Pace (7-1) came late in the day to claim the Guinness Galway Hurdle.

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