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Gruesome evidence of former Serbian general Ratko Mladic presented at UN court
1 week ago

DETENTION camps set up by Bosnian Serbs were "part of the system" of terror and ethnic cleansing, the UN prosecutor has alleged at the trial of Ratko Mladic in the Hague today. "The detention camps were places of great suffering," said Dermot Groome the
Bolivia victim's parents' heartbreaking delay in getting son's body home
1 month ago

THE parents of a young man shot dead in a raid by an elite Bolivian police unit three years ago said yesterday that the hardest aspect they endured was when they couldn't see their son's body after it was eventually brought home.Michael Dwyer, 24, from B
Ganley not linked to £25,000 fake invoice
2 months ago

BUSINESSMAN Declan Ganley has been cleared by the Mahon Tribunal of being involved in the provision of a fake invoice worth IR£25,000 to disgraced Fianna Fail politician Liam Lawlor.The Mahon Tribunal launched an investigation after it heard evidence tha
Spain and Germany hot favourites at Euro 2012 ...but don’t rule out a dark horse
1 week ago

SPAIN and Germany are rightly the most favoured teams heading into Euro 2012 this summer but history has demonstrated that the European Championship can be the tournament for the underdog.In 1992, Denmark's players were preparing for their summer holiday
John McCain: ‘US should bomb Syria'
2 months ago

THE US should bomb the Syrian army to stop attacks on cities and carve out "safe havens" for rebel fighters, Senator John McCain said.The Republican candidate for the presidency in 2008 became the first senior figure in US politics to call publicly for m
Residents cower as Assad renews assault on Homs
2 months ago

Bodies of slain journalist Marie Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik are handed over Syrian forces launched a fresh assault on Homs yesterday as the Red Cross pressed forward with efforts to deliver badly-needed aid to thousands of stranded people.Two da
EU leaders back Serbian candidacy
2 months ago

European Union leaders have formally made Serbia a candidate for membership in the bloc, in a remarkable turnaround for a country considered a pariah just over a decade ago.Serbia had been widely expected to get EU candidacy in December after it captured
Serbia closer to EU membership
2 months ago

European Union governments last night agreed that Serbia should become a candidate to join the 27-country bloc.However, a final decision will not be taken until later in the week after Romania unexpectedly refused to sign an agreement to grant Serbia the