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Congo: 12 army officers to be charged with rapes
A dozen senior officers in the Congolese army have been arrested for responsibility for mass rapes committed by several army units in eastern Congo ...
Pope taps cardinals to advise on governing, reform
Pope Francis named eight cardinals from around the globe Saturday to advise him on running the Catholic Church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, ...
A list of papal advisers on Curia reform
Pope Francis on Saturday named eight cardinals to a panel that will help advise him running the church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, or Curia
Irish nanny indicted for murder in child's death
An Irish nanny accused of killing a baby in her care was indicted on a murder charge Friday in the U.S. A grand jury in Massachusetts also accused ...
Hague war crimes court investigating own staffer
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has opened a formal investigation into allegations by four people who say they were subjected to sexual ...
Court orders foreign press access to German trial
Germany's highest court on Friday decided that currently shut-out foreign media must have seats at the trial of a woman suspected in a far-right ...
Tears flow as 13 Serbian shooting victims buried
Mourners wailed and church bells tolled Friday in this Serbian village as hundreds came to bury 13 people shot dead by a man some called a quiet, ...
2 arrested in UK for hate crime against 'emo'
British police say they have arrested two people over an assault on an "emo" teenage boy — the first to be recorded in the country as an alternative ...
Serb suspect in shooting rampage dies
The Serbian veteran suspected of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage and then turning the gun on himself and his wife died Thursday, hospital ...
Jolie joins G-8 to urge end to sexual violence
Angelina Jolie brought her celebrity wattage to London on Thursday to back an urgent cause: fighting sexual violence in military conflicts.
Rockefeller impostor convicted of cold-case murder
A German immigrant who spent decades posing as an heir to the fabled Rockefeller oil fortune and using other identities was found guilty of ...
Officer defends overturning sexual-assault verdict
The Air Force commander who overturned a jury's guilty verdict in a sexual assault case — enraging members of Congress and prompting talk of military ...
Paterno's widow: We were ignorant of sex predators
Joe Paterno's widow said Wednesday that she and her husband were ignorant about sexual predators like Jerry Sandusky and did not realize that the ...
Judge fines Costa $1.3M for Concordia wreck
A judge in Tuscany fined Italian cruise line Costa Crociere SpA 1 million euros ($1.3 million) Wednesday for the 2012 shipwreck of the Concordia ...
2 plead guilty to UK terror plot
Two men accused of planning an al-Qaida-inspired terrorist attack intended to be bigger than the 2005 London transit bombings have pleaded guilty in ...
Mother suspected of killing 3 newborns in Poland
Prosecutors in northern Poland on Wednesday were questioning a woman suspected of killing her three newborn boys whose bodies were found in the ...
Cuba turning over Florida couple and children
Cuba on Tuesday said it will hand over to the United States a Florida couple who allegedly kidnapped their two young sons from the mother's parents ...
Prosecutor paints Jodi Arias as manipulative liar
The prosecutor in Jodi Arias' murder trial worked Tuesday to portray the defendant as a manipulative liar as he questioned a defense witness' ...
Rockefeller impostor murder case goes to jury
A murder case against a notorious Rockefeller impostor was turned over to a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday after the prosecutor implored the panel to ...