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Crimes Against Humanity

Vicky Hunter - | Story: 8655
  • A Spanish court has convicted a former Argentine naval officer of crimes against humanity, terrorism and torture under the former Argentine military government and sentenced him to 640 years in prison -- effectively jailing him for the rest of his life. Human rights organizations hailed the case against Adolfo Scilingo. Full story
  • A woman detained in a deadly Paris hotel fire acknowledged that she started the blaze by accident, police said Tuesday as the death toll climbed a notch to 23. The woman was taken into custody Monday, three days after the Paris Opera hotel burned down. She was identified by judicial officials as the girlfriend of one of the hotel's night watchmen. Full story
  • U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday called the Kremlin's tight grip on power and the media "very worrying" and urged Russian President Vladimir Putin not to cling on to power beyond his present term. Rice made some of the sharpest U.S. criticism to date of the Kremlin's record on democracy at the start of a visit to Moscow. Full story
  • Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati said Tuesday he had formed a new government. The announcement came less than a week after Omar Karami turned in his resignation as prime minister when he failed to form a new government. Full story
  • Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person in the United States charged in connection with the September 11 attacks, is offering for a second time to plead guilty and a federal judge is evaluating whether to accept the plea, a legal source said Tuesday. Full story

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