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Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court gives its final verdict Friday on the Khmer Rouge jailer who oversaw the deaths of 15,000 people, ending the first-ever prosecution for the "Killing Fields" era.
Their photos line the walls of the genocide museum, once a notorious prison where Cambodians were tortured and killed by the brutal Khmer Rouge.
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia refused on Monday a U.N. call to reconsider its veto of a new judge on the Khmer Rouge war crime tribunal, saying it reserved the right to reject unsuitable candidates under a 2003 agreement with the world body. A government spokesman said the United Nations did not fully understand the terms of the agreement to prosecute former Khmer Rouge officials after the …
Headline Title:  Cambodia: Khmer Rouge judgment raises human rights concerns 03 February 2012 The UN-backed Khmer Rouge tribunalīs final judgment against a former prison chief in Cambodia today is an important step towards accountability but raises human rights concerns, Amnesty International said.  The tribunalīs Supreme Court Chamber upheld an earlier conviction of Khmer Rouge jailer Kaing …
Cambodia's war crimes court Friday rejected the appeal a man who ran a Khmer Rouge regime torture prison and instead increased the man's sentence to life imprisonment.
Cambodia's war crimes court is to rule Friday on an appeal by a man who ran a notorious torture prison where more than 14,000 people died under the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s.
Court rules against Comrade Duch's appeal to cut his 35-year prison term, sending him to jail for life
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has jailed two Muslim Uighurs deported from Cambodia for life, Radio Free Asia reported on Friday, showing no sign of loosening its grip on far-western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region which holds rich deposits of oil and gas. The sentences — and deadly clashes this week between police in Sichuan and ethnic Tibetans — come at a sensitive time for China for whom …
A member of one of the worldīs most endangered turtle species is being tracked by satellites as it swims the rivers of Cambodia, helping scientists to learn more about how it navigates and the threats it faces in its native waters. With a satellite transmitter glued to her shell, the female southern river terrapin ( Batagur affinis edwardmolli ) one of the last 200 wild members of a species …
SINGAPORE: The Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) has been launched more than six months now but it remains very quiet.



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German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a German-Chinese economic forum during her visit to Guangzhou, China, Friday,  Feb. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Bobby Yip, Pool)AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed regret Saturday that Chinese police blocked a human rights lawyer from meeting her and said the Communist government should have the confidence to allow dissent.


Pakistan's Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon (top L) speaks to India's delegate Hardeep Singh Puri (bottom C) during a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss a European-Arab draft resolution endorsing an Arab League plan calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to give up power in New York February 4, 2012. Russia and China joined forces in a double veto on Saturday to knock down a Western-Arab U.N. Security Council resolution backing an Arab League plan for Assad to step aside. REUTERS/Allison Joyce (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)AP - Pakistan’s prime minister will travel to Qatar next week to talk with leaders there about the prospect of a peace deal to end the war in Afghanistan, a government official said Saturday, a trip that suggests some progress in a process long stymied by mistrust.


Reuters - India’s beleaguered government won some rare relief on Saturday when a court threw out a corruption case against one its top ministers ahead of crucial state elections next week.

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, Bibi Hur cries over her injured daughter at a hospital in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Bibi Hur has lost three of her children and two more injured by a road side bomb, Hur said. A U.N. report says last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians, with 3,021 killed in the war. That was an 8 percent increase in civilian deaths from 2010. It was also the fifth year in a row that the civilian toll has became steadily worse. The report issued Saturday says insurgents killed more than three-quarters of the civilians who died, with a steep rise in people killed in suicide bombings. It says roadside bombs were the single biggest killer of civilians, accounting for nearly one in three deaths. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)AP - Last year was the deadliest on record for civilians in the Afghan war, with 3,021 killed as insurgents ratcheted up violence with suicide attacks and roadside bombs, the United Nations said Saturday.


AP - Indonesian police say they have arrested an airline pilot on suspicion of using illegal drugs three hours before flying.

Former Taliban militants with gowns hold copies of Islam's holy book 'Quran' which were given by Afghan officials during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday Jan. 30, 2012. Mullah Abdullah, not picturreed, a Taliban militant commander from Herat province joined with Afghan government along with his 30 militants under his command and handed over their weapons as part of a peace-reconciliation program . (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)AP - The Afghan Taliban on Saturday denied that their leader Mullah Omar had written to President Barack Obama last July.


An Afghan vendor waits for customers during a snowstorm, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)AP - Afghan officials say they are hopeful that the country’s largest airport will reopen after being closed due to heavy snowfall.


AP - One of India’s most powerful and controversial politicians rises from a throne-like armchair, a clutch of candidates standing deferentially behind her and two large portraits flanking the stage. A gated semicircle keeps tens of thousands of supporters 20 yards (meters) away.
Reuters - More than 3,000 civilians were killed in the war in Afghanistan in 2011, the fifth year in a row the number has risen, the United Nations said on Saturday in a report likely to revive tension between the Afghan government and its Western backers.
Reuters - Pakistan’s prime minister will travel to Qatar next week to talk with officials from the Gulf Arab state on the Afghan reconciliation process, a senior government official said on Saturday.



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Reuters - Russia and China vetoed on Saturday a U.N. resolution that backed an Arab plan calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to quit, stalling global efforts to end his bloody crackdown on unrest after hundreds were reported killed in the city of Homs.
Reuters - Tens of thousands of Russians defied bitter cold in Moscow on Saturday to demand fair elections in a march against Vladimir Putin’s 12-year rule, while supporters of the prime minister staged a rival rally drawing comparable numbers.
Reuters - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Vancouver Island on Saturday, some 209 miles west of Victoria, the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Reuters - Bitterly cold weather that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe swept westwards over the continent on Saturday, blanketing Rome’s Colosseum with snow for the first time in three decades and disrupting air and rail traffic.
Reuters - Egypt’s military faced pressure on Saturday to speed up its transfer of power to civilians, as top public figures demanded a faster transition and street protests against army rule disrupted the heart of Cairo for a third day.
Time.com - Friday night, Syrian security forces carried out what the opposition Syrian National Council called a “horrific massacre” targeting Homs in one of the worst in the 11-month uprising.
Reuters - The U.S. military, which is cutting its presence in Europe, plans to expand its training of European partners to cope with new threats posed by interlinked criminal and militant networks smuggling weapons and drugs, said the U.S. commander in Europe.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 7, 1998 file photo, the shadow of Mount Sinai stretches across the valley at the foot of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai peninsula some 240 miles southeast of Cairo, Egypt. Gunmen intercepted a tourist minivan and snatched two female American tourists at gunpoint, along with their Egyptian tour guide Friday near St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai, the region's security chief said Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Enric Marti, File)AP - Their kidnappers gave them tea and dried fruit, and talked about religion and tribal rights. The California women were allowed to bring their Egyptian tour guide with them. One even put out his cigarette in the car when a hostage said the smoke was bothering her.


FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2009 file picture, released by Argentina's Foreign Ministry, relatives of Argentine soldiers who died in the 1982 Falklands war between Argentina and Great Britain search for their tombstones in a cemetery in Darwin, East Falkland Island. Tensions between Argentina and Britain rose after British Prime Minister David Cameron approved sending a nuclear submarine to the Falklands before the April 2, 2012 anniversary. Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez said her campaign to recover Argentine territory will remain one of diplomacy and economic pressure, not war. (AP Photo/Argentine Foreign Ministry, file)AP - London’s tabloids and British leaders are depicting Argentina as dangerous and belligerent 30 years after its invasion of the Falkland Islands. Argentines say Britain should consider its own history of waging war around the globe, and acknowledge that the islands and seas around them rightfully belong to Argentina.


Reuters - Libyan Sufis staged a joyous parade through the heart of Tripoli on Saturday to mark the Prophet Mohammad’s birthday, defying radical Salafi Muslims pressuring them to scrap the centuries-old tradition.



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