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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Omar Khadr, the only western prisoner still held in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, broke down and wept when questioned by Canadian interrogators, video footage released on Tuesday shows.
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A Canadian Security Intelligence Services agent in the video grills Khadr about events leading up to his capture as an enemy combatant when he was 15. Khadr, a Canadian citizen, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed one U.S. Special Forces soldier and blinded another during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan. He was arrested […]
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A US magazine cover showing Barack Obama in the Oval Office dressed as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist was condemned as tasteless and offensive by the Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign yesterday.
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The wife of former prison officer John Darwin “put on a great act”, playing an “equal and vital” role with “superb aplomb” in the plot which saw the pair fraudulently claim £250,000 in insurance payouts by faking his death, an English court heard yesterday.
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TORONTO (July 15) - Lawyers for a Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay
released hours of videotaped interrogations Tuesday, providing a
first-ever glimpse into the secretive world of questioning enemy
combatants at the isolated U.S. prison in Cuba.
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House prices are falling at a rate not witnessed since records began in the 1950s, according to the latest report from banking giant Halifax.
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A koala has had an extraordinary escape after being hit by a car at 100km/h then being taken for a 12km ride with its head stuck in the car grille.
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Despite warnings that violence would soon follow — in the country where filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in 2004 for his short film that decried the treatment of women in Islam (”Submission”) — far-right, anti-immigration Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders released his anti-Quran film “Fitna” on the Internet on March 27, 2008.
The film begins with […]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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By a prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, no less. The findings of ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo now go to the judges of the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I for review. The next step could be to issue a warrant for Omar al-Bashir’s arrest.
Here’s more, straight from the ICC:
“Three years after the Security Council requested him […]
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Seventy-five years ago Tuesday, city officials caught up in the excitement of the pioneering aviator’s visit to the Century of Progress exposition slapped the name of the Italian general on the roughly half-mile stretch of pavement running between State Street and Lake Shore Drive.
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8:22am UK, Tuesday July 15, 2008
Middle East envoy Tony Blair is visiting Gaza, becoming the highest level Western official to go there since radical group Hamas took power there.
Middle East envoy Tony Blair visiting Bethlehem in the West Bank in May
Hamas officials are said to see the visit as a sign of their emergence from […]
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Rex Features
The video for Radiohead’s next single has been made without a camera.
The group’s promo for ‘House Of Cards’ was created by director James Frost using 3-D and radar technologies.
A form of motion capture, Geometric Informatics uses light to capture image detail at close quarters and map the data onto 3-D models.
Velodyne Lidar […]
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A 108-year-old (yes, you read that correctly) Australian woman, reportedly the world’s oldest blogger, has passed away in Woy Woy (which is about 50 miles north of Sydney).
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JOLIE KIDS LOOKING LIKE $20M TWINS
By DAN MANGAN, Post Wire Services
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Last updated: 3:28 pmJuly 14, 2008 Posted: 3:43 amJuly 14, 2008
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt welcomed their twins into the world - […]
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Sacramento — Less than a week after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger offered a new version of his water bond proposal, Democratic leaders in the Legislature today resurrected their own spending plans for water projects that the governor vetoed last year.
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