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29.02.2008, 08:33
The man who ordered the use of biological weapons on thousands of Kurds in Iraq will be hanged. The execution of Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, will happen any time from now, within the next 30 days, as the Iraq's Presidency Council approved
28.02.2009, 02:01
U.S. President Barack Obama has presented a time line for ending combat operations in Iraq, followed by the withdrawal of military forces. He announced the plans during a speech at a military base in North Carolina.
25.10.2010, 23:45
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Two Israeli soldiers are awaiting sentencing after being convicted of using a Palestinian child as a human shield during the Gaza war.
09.11.2009, 18:29
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Secret routes, fake IDs, risking freedom and even their lives – despite all this, illegal Palestinian workers flow to Israel in search for jobs they have no chance of finding at home.
28.12.2009, 08:34
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A year after Israel's devastating operation in Gaza, Palestinians are mourning its victims. The war claimed the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, according to human rights groups on both sides, and 13 Israelis.
15.10.2010, 22:30
Afghan prisoners taking part in a US study have claimed they were abused at a secret jail inside the main American military base in Afghanistan.
30.03.2009, 12:34
In the Arab world, 'Executioner' is a particularly respected occupation, bequeathed from father to son. Representatives of the profession say their goal is to make beheadings as painless as possible for the condemned.
03.08.2009, 06:48
Saddam Hussein's former deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, has been sentenced to seven years in jail for helping to plan the forced displacement of Kurds from northeastern Iraq in the late 1980s.
26.08.2009, 13:05
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“No one told me, not even Palestinian families, that the Israel army took organs from their sons. The army just returned sewed up bodies after autopsy and that raises questions,” says Swedish journalist Donald Bostrom.
27.08.2009, 21:21
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President Obama has given the green light to a new unit to question terror suspects. It will be made up of military intelligence and law enforcement experts.
Published: 02 March, 2009, 17:17
Edited: 25 January, 2010, 23:14
A court in Iraq has sentenced to death three officials for killing Shiites during the reign of Saddam Hussein. Among the convicted is Hassan al-Majid, better known as ‘Chemical Ali’.
