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A Bosnian Serb man holds a photo of former Gen. Ratko Mladic during a protest in Kalinovik, Bosnia, hometown of the Bosnian Serb wartime military leader, 70 kms southeast of Sarajevo, Sunday, May 29, 2011. Approximately 3,000 Bosnian Serbs, gathered to show support and anger after the arrest of Mladic.
Bosnia   Crimes   Genocide   Photos   Wikipedia: Bosnian War		  The Independent 
Prosecutors lay out Srebrenica genocide case against Ratko Mladic
Thu 17 May 2012
On the second day of the 70-year-old's genocide trial, Yugoslav war crimes tribunal prosecutors will focus on the bloody climax of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, when Serb forces systematically executed... (photo: AP / Amel Emric)
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Health   Obesity   People   Photos   Wikipedia: Obesity		  San Francisco Chronicle 
Richmond soda tax to fight obesity makes ballot
Thu 17 May 2012
Richmond voters will decide this fall whether to impose what could be the nation's first municipal tax on soda and other sugary beverages - a penny-per-ounce surcharge intended to fight childhood... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Mladic instigated ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, UN court told  France24  Thu 17 May 2012
Mladic instigated ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, UN court told
AFP - Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe's worst massacre since World War II. Mladic's trial opened... (photo: UN / UN)
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Former Bosnian Serb military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic is seen at the start of his trial at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday May 16, 2012.  BBC News  Thu 17 May 2012
Mladic trial: Prosecution to focus on Srebrenica massacre
A war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic is to resume, with the prosecution focusing on the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. Gen Mladic is accused of orchestrating the... (photo: AP / Toussaint Kluiters, Pool)
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Chinese Vice Premier LI Keqiang, right, and LIu Yunshan, left, Director of Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Department, clap while Zhou Yongkang, center, member of Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Commitee, is introduced during a conference to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of Chinese Communist Youth League at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Friday, May 4, 2012. Al Jazeera Thu 17 May 2012
Chinese in bold call for official's removal
A group of Communist Party veterans has written a daring open letter calling for the removal of China's top security official, in the latest sign of disunity ahead of... (photo: AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
China   Communism   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Zhou Yongkang
Dramatic start to Mladic genocide trial The Australian Wed 16 May 2012
Dramatic start to Mladic genocide trial
HE is no longer the swaggering general who held Sarajevo "in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. Yet as his long-awaited genocide trial... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
Dramatic   Genocide   Photos   Serbia   Trial   Wikipedia: Serbia
Anna Hazare with his team supporters The Times of India Wed 16 May 2012
Notices served to 14 corrupt central ministers: Anna Hazare
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet BHANDARA : "Fourteen central ministers involved in corruption have been served notices. If they do not give a reply by June, we will launch an... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Corruption   Delhi   Maharashtra   Photos   Wikipedia: Anna Hazare
Afghan shrines last resort for Afghan mentally ill Herald Tribune Wed 16 May 2012
Afghan shrines last resort for Afghan mentally ill
JALALABAD, Afghanistan - The young man sits nearly naked in a small concrete room, a thick, heavy chain fastened around his ankle and bolted to the wall. Flies swarm... (photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod)
Afghanistan   Defence   Photos   War   Waste   Wikipedia: Afghanistan
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, second right, makes his first appearance at the Special Court in Freetown, Monday, April 3, 2006. Former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleaded not guilty Monday to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including sexual slavery, mutilation and sending children into combat. The Daily Telegraph Wed 16 May 2012
Charles Taylor accuses prosecutors of paying witnesses
Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president convicted of crimes against humanity, accused United Nations prosecutors of paying witnesses to testify against him and... (photo: AP / George Osodi)
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