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Suicide bomber trial starts

Source: 7days

Paris :: France | about 9 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Al Qaeda’s supposed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was put on trial in absentia in a Paris court yesterday, accused of plotting the 2002 suicide bombing of a Tunisian synagogue that killed 21 people. Sheikh Mohammed is in Guantanamo Bay...

Maxim Staviski to serve his sentence behind bars, court says

Source: Sofia Echo

Burgas :: Bulgaria | about 17 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Two-time world champion ice skater Maxim Staviski will have to serve his two-and-a-half year sentence in jail, the Bourgas Appellative Court has ruled, Bulgarian news agency Focus said on January 5 2009. Staviski was given a suspended sentence of two...

Terror suspect called victim of geopolitics

Source: Dawn

London :: United Kingdom | about 9 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

A refugee in Britain accused of calling for terrorist attacks on Pakistan was a casualty of geopolitics due to the West's backing for former president Pervez Musharraf, a London court heard on Monday. Faiz Baloch, 27, was not a terrorist...

Baroud opens security facility at Beirut airport

Source: NOW Lebanon

Paris :: France | about 15 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Interior Minister Ziad Baroud inaugurated a training center at Beirutâs Rafik Hariri International Airport on Monday that will strengthen security at the airport. Baroud said, in a speech during the facilityâs opening ceremony, âThis project, which will continue for 36...

UN envoy: Nations must take Guantanamo inmates

Source: Associated Press

Vienna :: Austria | about 16 hours ago | Conflict & Tragedy

More nations must take in Guantanamo inmates once the U.S.-run prison closes, the U.N.'s torture investigator said Monday, insisting that many were held simply because they were "in the wrong place at the wrong time." Manfred Nowak told Austrian radio...

Gunmen attack Greek riot police

Source: United Press International

Athens :: Greece | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Gunmen shot and wounded a police officer Monday in a continuation of violence that broke out in Greece last month after the police shooting of a teenager. At least two masked gunmen sprayed more than 20 rounds of bullets at...

Reporters on the Job

Source: Christian Science Monitor

Paris :: France | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

The battle between Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party is being fought on many levels, says reporter Yigal Schleifer ( see story ). "One of the things the AKP is doing is delivering...

France tries Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Source: BBC

Paris :: France | 1 day ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is being held in the Guantanamo Bay camp, is being tried in absentia for the attack. German national Christian Ganczarski and Tunisian Walid Nouar are also on trial in Paris...Twenty-one people died when a suicide bomber...

It's Freefall Friday: Shares lose £250m a SECOND as FTSE drops ...

Posted by: uziii

London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Blind panic swept through the City today as the Stock Market collapsed, shedding £80billion in its worst ever opening following huge losses around the globe. Traders were in a state of 'paralytic fear' when shares crashed through the floor just...

Three Killed as Plane Crashes into Rail Line in Stafford

Posted by: lafours

Stafford :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago | Conflict & Tragedy

Pilot Alan Matthews, 59, has been confirmed as one of the fatalities of the accident which happened in Stafford at midday on Friday. His wife Jenny, commented he had 19 years' flying experience and that the whole family were in...