Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at the Hague accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The ailing 70-year-old Mladic’s appearance at the U.N. court war crimes tribunal marked the end of a long wait for justice to survivors of the 1992-95 war that left some 100,000 people dead. The trial is also a landmark for the U.N. court and international justice — Mladic is the last suspect from the Bosnian war to go on trial here.
Mladic, in a suit and tie and looking healthier than at previous pretrial hearings, gave a thumbs-up and clapped to supporters in the court’s public gallery as the trial got under way Wednesday. He occasionally wrote notes and showed no emotion as prosecutors began outlining his alleged crimes.
Munira Subasic, who lost 22 family members in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, was among a group of relatives of war dead in the courtroom’s public gallery to face Mladic.
The 65-year-old said she wanted to look him in the eye “and ask him if he will repent for what he did.”
One woman in the public gallery called him a “vulture” as prosecutors began two days of laying out their case for judges.
Presiding Judge Alphons Orie of the Netherlands said at the outset that the court was considering Read rest of entry
Her rivals call her Germany’s “debt queen,” but Hannelore Kraft’s victory in a state election on the weekend has driven speculation she could challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel as the mother of a nation famed for its frugality. Ms. Kraft’s ready smile and common touch helped her turn around the fortunes of her centre-left Social Democrats [...]
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Judge Grants Extension In Yaz Lawsuit As early as 2011 there were reports of women and teenage girls dying from blood clot related medical problems that have now officially been linked to Yaz. When the problems were first reported the manufacturer denied any responsibility for the deaths and other medical issues related to Yaz however, [...]
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Enlarge Paul Sancya/AP Workers on the assembly line at a Ford truck plant in Dearborn, Mich. Half of the April increase in factory output reflected a 3.9 percent jump in the production of motor vehicles and parts. Paul Sancya/AP Workers on the assembly line at a Ford truck plant in Dearborn, Mich. Half of the [...]
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Liverpool have terminated the contract of manager Kenny Dalglish, owners Fenway Sports Group and the club have confirmed. Read full Liverpool statement here The announcement comes just 24 hours after the Scot returned from a meeting with principal owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner in the United States. Dalglish paid the price for failing [...]
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Novak Djokovic got his French Open build-up back on a firmer footing as he began the defence of his Rome Masters title with a convincing win over Bernard Tomic. Top seed Djokovic joined Rafael Nadal in making scathing criticisms of the blue clay in Madrid, where he was beaten by Janko Tipsarevic last week. He [...]
Monisha Kaltenborn has moved a step closer to becoming the first female team principal in Formula One by accepting one third of a stake in the Sauber Group. Sauber CEO Kaltenborn has been rewarded for her role in helping the team through a difficult period over the past few years. Team boss and president Peter [...]
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President Santos described the FTA as an enormous opportunity for Colombian production Colombia’s weak labour record, including murders and attacks on union activists, had held up the free-trade pact for years as powerful US union groups opposed it on the grounds that Colombia lacked the capacity to enforce worker protections. But Congress finally passed the [...]
Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal at the Hague accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The ailing 70-year-old Mladic’s appearance at the U.N. court war crimes tribunal [...]
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Her rivals call her Germany’s “debt queen,” but Hannelore Kraft’s victory in a state election on the weekend has driven speculation she could challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel as the mother of a nation famed for its frugality. Ms. Kraft’s ready smile and common touch helped her turn around the fortunes of her centre-left Social Democrats [...]
Anders Behring Breivik screamed a “battle cry” and appeared both angry and joyous as he shot his victims one by one, survivors of the Norwegian far-right killer’s massacre told a court on Wednesday. “I heard screaming but I couldn’t make out the words,” Ingvild Leren Stensrud, 17, who was shot in the leg and shoulder, [...]
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Government critics, and even some supporters, are ridiculing a state TV host’s allegation that a newspaper crossword puzzle may have had a hidden call for a plot to kill President Hugo Chavez’s elder brother. Intelligence agents questioned the author of the puzzle after state TV presenter Miguel Perez Pirela pointed out that Wednesday’s crossword contained [...]
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Enlarge Paul Sancya/AP Workers on the assembly line at a Ford truck plant in Dearborn, Mich. Half of the April increase in factory output reflected a 3.9 percent jump in the production of motor vehicles and parts. Paul Sancya/AP Workers on the assembly line at a Ford truck plant in Dearborn, Mich. Half of the [...]
The boxer played by Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter has been hospitalised following a dog attack. Micky Ward, the athlete whose early career was retold in last year’s Oscar-winning picture, fell victim to a stray while walking his own pet in Massachusetts on Wednesday, according to TMZ. Ward was admitted to a local medical facility [...]
Yaz Lawsuit Update Share Yaz Lawsuit Yaz Lawsuit Update 05/14/2012: Although Bayer has indicated that it plans to start making settlement offers on the 11,000 plus Yaz Lawsuits it currently faces, new Yaz Lawsuits are still being filed. On or about April 04/24/12 Case Number 3:12-cv-20100-DRH-PMH was filed on behalf of 4 adults and one [...]
Larry Tanenbaum, the billionaire construction magnate and chair of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, is the latest big-name player to signal he’s game to make a bid for a Toronto casino. Mr. Tanenbaum, who holds a minority stake in MLSE, says he favours a waterfront site for any proposed Toronto casino, including Exhibition Place, home [...]
Facebook Inc. increased the size of its initial public offering by almost 25 per cent, and could raise as much as $16-billion as strong investor demand for a share of the No.1 social network trumps debate about its long-term potential to make money. Facebook, founded eight years ago by Mark Zuckerberg in a Harvard dorm [...]
Nebraska state Senator Deb Fischer won the Republican nomination Tuesday to run for a U.S. Senate seat in November. She will face former Senator Bob Kerrey, a Democrat who represented the state from 1988-2000. Source: NPR : National Public Radio
IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: It’s time to make a decision. Do you carry on as before, allowing yourself to be swept along by events over which you have no control? Or do you set yourself a goal and go for it with all your heart? You know the answer – now make the commitment. [...]
Australian male found dead in hotel in Colombia Cocaine overdose suspected as cause of death Hotel worker discovered the body of the tourist AN Australian man has been found dead in a hotel room in Colombia. According to a translation of a Spanish news report, 36-year-old Martin Trent Alexander was found dead in the Las [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. The Forbidden Fashion Show roars into the Seattle Art Museum on Saturday, May 21, with sexy swimwear and lingerie strutting a runway designed like a roadway. The James Bond-themed show, titled “Live Another Night,” is in its fourth year, and it’s the only show of its kind in Seattle, [...]
