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In this photo rendered from video, Radovan Karadzic speaks during his appearance for first time at the UN war crimes court at the Hague, Thursday, July 31, 2008, to face genocide charges.

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Serbia, Bosnia Want Custody Of Ex-Bosnian Leader
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Serbia And Bosnia Both Demand Custody Of Wartime Bosnian Leader Arrested In London Font size Print E-mail Share (AP) BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbia and Bosnia on Tuesday both demanded custody of a former Bosniak leader arrested in London on war crimes allegations, further straining relations between the two Balkan nations. Ex-Bosnian deputy...

In this photo taken from english.aljazeera.net, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi is shown. Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a 36-year old doctor from Zarqa, Jordan, is a suspected Jordanian double agent who killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, 2009.

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Qaeda bomber reveals how he trapped targets
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Washington: An al-Qaeda suicide bomber who killed seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan has claimed that he lured American and Jordanian intelligence officers into a trap by offering them doctored information about terrorist targets as well as videotapes of senior leaders of his group. In a posthumous video message posted on an extremist Web site,...

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Chile quake moved Earth's axis, shortened days: scientist
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A gap in a road caused by Saturday's earthquake and the ensuing tsunami in ... Local residents walk by a boat grounded by the earthquake and the ensuing t... The powerful earthquake that shook Chile on Saturday probably shifted the Earth's axis and made days slightly shorter, a NASA...

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Mega earthquake on par with one that struck Chile could strike Pacific Northwest
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LOS ANGELES - The earthquake in Chile has brought new attention to a dangerous undersea fault along the Pacific Northwest. The fault is capable of producing the same type of mega earthquake as in Chile and inflicting heavy damage on cities like Seattle, Portland and Vancouver. The fault has been dormant for more than 300 years, but the consequences...

Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaks to the press in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 2, 2010.

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Ukrainian PM Tymoshenko's pro-Western Orange coalition dissolves, she's likely to lose post
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KIEV, Ukraine - Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's pro-Western Orange coalition dissolved Tuesday as her former allies turned against her, setting her up to be ousted in a no-confidence vote. The development spells the final repudiation of the Orange Revolution Tymoshenko helped lead in 2004, and paves the way for Ukraine's new Kremlin-friendly...

Soldiers patrol a street as a woman walks reading a newspaper in Concepcion , Chile, Tuesday, March. 2, 2010.

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Chile struggles to prevent looting
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Chilean authorities have rushed thousands of more troops to earthquake-ravaged towns across the country in a bid to contain mass looting and unrest triggered by Saturday's devastating earthquake. Michelle Bachelet, the country's president, has doubled the number of troops patrolling the worst hit areas to 14,000. Chile was hit by another...

In this Sept. 27, 2009 photo, skulls and bones from some of the estimated 10,000 Tutsis killed in a two-day massacre at Nyamata church during the 1994 genocide, are displayed in a crypt behind the church, now a memorial to the genocide, in the town of Nyamata, 30 kilometers outside Kigali, Rwanda.

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Rwanda president's widow held in France over genocide
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The widow of assassinated Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana has been arrested...

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stands in the courtroom during his initial appearance at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday July 31, 2008.

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Karadzic points to Muslims
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The Bosnian Serb leader tells judges at the U.N. war-crimes tribunal that he was protecting against an Islamic plot. THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, defending himself against charges of Europe's worst genocide since the Holocaust, told judges Monday that he was not the barbarian depicted by U.N....

Riot soldiers stand guard in the streets of Concepcion, Chile, Monday, March 1, 2010.

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Troops strain to control looting, clashes in Chile
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SANTIAGO, Chile - Security forces struggled to contain looting and clashes in this country's second-largest city yesterday, as tens of thousands of Chileans who lost their homes in Saturday's earthquake camped out in the streets and waited for relief. More than 10,000 troops have been deployed to patrol the city of Concepción and outlying areas hit...

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Aid groups ready to help if needed
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International aid agencies faced with back-to-back natural disasters in Haiti and Chile say they are well-equipped to manage both -- if they are asked. There's no need to shift priorities away from Haiti just six weeks after it was shattered by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake following Saturday's 8.8 temblor in Chile, representatives of several aid...