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WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 28, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

BBC News -- The murder of a man in southern Italy has fuelled concern about an escalation of a blood feud among the Calabrian mafia or 'Ndrangheta. Police say the victim, Francesco Capicchiano, 33, was carrying a pistol but did not even have time to draw it as two.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Oct 29, 2007 @ 1:08pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- The voice on the other end of my cellphone was oddly calm, but intent. "Abukar, I am calling to inform you that we have decided to take your life," the caller said. I glanced down at my phone to see the caller ID, which read "private." "You're not w.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 10:37am neoform

Al Jazeera -- The other defendants received sentences of between eight and 35 years' imprisonment.Mafia gangMost of the 12 people who were convicted of being involved in the conspiracy were members of the Zemun mafia gang, and many fought as paramilitaries in the Bosni.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 3:21pm neoform

SF Gate -- A woman was convicted Monday of hiring a hit squad to murder her lover's baby daughter, ending a trial that had dominated headlines for months with details of South Africa's first known contract killing of an infant. Dina Rodrigues was found guilty of.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 26, 2007 @ 9:37am mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- Serbia was guilty of failing to prevent the genocide of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995, the UN's highest court ruled today. But the international court of justice cleared Serbia of direct responsibility for genocide and complicity in.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jan 20, 2007 @ 11:59pm neoform

Telegraph -- Miguel Grima was not a well-liked man. As mayor of a tiny hamlet in the foothills of the Pyrenees in northern Spain he had ruffled a few feathers... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jan 16, 2007 @ 9:30am mrmdc

Middle East Times -- An Iranian court has cleared of murder charges a 19-year-old woman who was originally sentenced to death for killing a man that she said tried to rape her, the press reported Monday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 5:28am neoform

BBC News -- Italy will campaign at the United Nations for a global ban on the death penalty, Prime Minister Romano Prodi has said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Dec 21, 2006 @ 4:10pm mrmdc

Times Online -- A man who was being hunted for the murder of a policewoman is understood to have escaped from Britain by disguising himself as a veiled Muslim woman... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 29, 2006 @ 12:28am neoform

Independent -- The gunmen came at night to drag Mohammed Halim away from his home, in front of his crying children and his wife begging for mercy... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Three men have been charged over the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, investigators have said. Politkovskaya, a prominent Kremlin critic, was shot dead outside her home in the capital on 7 October 2006. Russia's Investigative Committ.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 31, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- The first four of 28 defendants in the 2004 Madrid train bombings were found guilty of murder and other charges Wednesday in the culmination to a politically divisive trial over Europe's worst Islamic terror attack. Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez was read.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 8:45pm neoform

Washington Post -- An upheaval like the pro-democracy uprising taking place in Burma over the past month tends to shake up certainties that had seemed self-evident. Certainties such as the primacy of justice. Or the sanctity of the Olympic Games. Despite an academic indu.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Sep 5, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- A Polish author has been jailed over the murder of a businessman, four years after he published a novel which contained details of a similar crime. The court ruled that author Krystian Bala planned and led the murder of Dariusz Janiszewski because he b.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- Ten people have been arrested in Russia over the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Russian TV showed prosecutor general Yuri Chaika telling President Putin of the arrests, informing him that those held would soon be charged. Mr.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 2:33pm neoform

CNN -- Britain is more interested in playing politics than solving the poisoning murder of ex-Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, senior Russian prosecutors said on Monday. The prosecutors hit back at British claims that Moscow was blocking efforts to solve the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 2:50am neoform

BBC News -- The trial of 18 people charged in connection with the murder of prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is to open in the city of Istanbul. Mr Dink, 53, was gunned down outside his newspaper's office in Istanbul in January. His murder triggere.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 15, 2007 @ 12:24pm neoform

BBC News -- Russia is to investigate alleged British spying on its territory after claims made by the prime suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. A spokesman for the Federal Security Service said a criminal case had been opened based on remarks and additi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 9:00pm neoform

BBC News -- One of Australia's most wanted fugitives has said he will fight extradition from Greece to face murder and drug charges in Australia. Tony Mokbel was arrested in the Greek capital, Athens, on Tuesday, after spending 15 months on the run. In 2006, th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 9:01am neoform

BBC News -- A court in Rome is set to deliver its verdict in the murder trial of Roberto Calvi, the Mafia-linked financier who became known as "God's Banker". Mr Calvi, the chairman of a private Italian bank, Banco Ambrosiano, was found hanging from scaffolding un.. Read More