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Amnesty International Thursday released a scathing report accusing Hezbollah of war crimes, during a month-long war with Israel. Amnesty International said its report is based on field research in Israel and Lebanon, as well as interviews with victims, official statements, and discussions with Israeli, Lebanese and Hezbollah officials. CNN News



Poland will send at least 900 additional soldiers to eastern Afghanistan next year, the Polish defence minister said Wednesday. The troops are part of an earlier arrangement, however, and were not offered in response to last week's call from NATO for more soldiers in Afghanistan, NATO spokesman Lt. Col. Goetz Haffke said. CBC News



The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial told the former Iraqi leader that he was not a dictator in a friendly chat during proceedings on Thursday - a day after the prosecution asked the judge to step down, alleging bias toward the defendants. News24



An Islamic militant showed no remorse Thursday as he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for bombings in Bali that left 20 people dead in 2005, vowing to take part in new suicide missions after he is freed. CBC News



At least three people were injured on Thursday when the roof of an airport terminal under construction collapsed on the Spanish holiday island of Menorca, news reports said. News24



The top deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank died Thursday morning after being gunned down by two assailants the night before near a Moscow football stadium, a medical source told Russia's state-run Interfax news agency. Andrei Kozlov, 41, was attacked near the capital's Spartak football arena around 9 p.m., Interfax reported. His driver was also killed. CNN News



Three men have become the first rabbis ordained in Germany since the Second World War, a milestone in the rebirth of Jewish life in the country decades after the Holocaust. CBC News



Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has threatened France with attacks by an Algerian terrorist group, French media reported on Thursday. News24



Cuban state television has shown photos of a pajama-clad Fidel Castro chatting animatedly with an Argentine congressman, raising expectations that the ailing Cuban president will use the Nonaligned Movement summit to make his first public appearance since undergoing surgery in July. CTV News



The U.S. military said it is looking into the unauthorized release of a photo purportedly taken by an American drone aircraft showing scores of Taliban militants at a funeral in Afghanistan. NBC-TV claimed U.S. Army officers wanted to attack the ceremony with missiles carried by the Predator drone, but were prevented under rules of battlefield engagement that bar attacks on cemeteries. CNN News


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