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| Saddam refuses to attend trial |
| Kurdish judge continues hearings without former dictator |
| Saddam Hussein refused to attend his trial today, bringing the often chaotic proceedings to a halt before the judge decided to press on with the televised hearings on crimes against humanity without him.
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| Ministry shake-up in Nepal |
| Nepal’s King Gyanendra today conducted a major reshuffle of his ministers and expanded the cabinet in the second such change since he assumed absolute power earlier this
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| Tehran crash kin blame officials |
| Angry relatives of more than 100 people killed in Iran’s worst air disaster for three years complained today that officials knew in advance that the crashed plane was no
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| Osama vow: Bullets better than capture |
| Osama bin Laden has vowed never to be taken alive and once gave his bodyguard a pistol with two bullets to shoot him if it appeared that he might be caught, according to a ne
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| Jail for suicide ‘consultant’ |
| A Dutch court sentenced a man calling himself a “suicide consultant” to a year in jail today for helping a mentally ill woman end her life.
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| In policy shift, US bans torture |
| The US, seeking to defuse European criticism over reports of abuse of prisoners, said today it had changed its policy on interrogating detainees.
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