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Skulls from those buried at the killing fields of Choeung Ek are arranged at a memorial Sunday, March 13, 2005, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. On Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, Nuon Chea, the Khmer Rouge's second in command behind Pol Pot, will go before the U.N.-backed genocide tribunal for the first time.

Legacy of the killing fields
Irish Times

ONLY A dozen inmates are believed to have survived the hell that was Phnom Penh's Tuol Sleng. At least 14,000 died in four years from 1975 at the former Chao Ponhea Yat High School, renamed by the Khmer Rouge "Security Prison 21 (S-21), their deaths, after excruciating torture, meticulously recorded by guards. Few lasted even weeks in the...
photo: AP / David Longstreath

The dead sea: Global warming blamed for 40 per cent decline in the ocean's phytoplankton

Phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Proper, July 3, 2001.

The Independent

The microscopic plants that support all life in the oceans are dying off at a dramatic rate, according to a study that has documented for the first time a disturbing and unprecedented change at the base of the marine food web. Scientists have...
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Hackers deface Buchenwald camp memorial website

These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena; many had died from malnutrition when U.S. troops of the 80th Division entered the camp. Germany, April 16, 1945. Pvt. H. Miller. WW2 cg1 wnhires

BBC News

Neo-Nazis have hacked into the memorial website of Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp, defacing it with fascist slogans and symbols. The hackers defaced a "Book of the Dead" commemorating victims of the camp...
photo: NARA/Pvt. H. Miller

US hopes for Iran nuclear talks

The exterior of the Arak heavy water production facility in Arak, Iran, 360 kms southwest of Tehran, is seen on Wednesday Oct. 27, 2004. Iran's top leader rejected a long-term suspension of uranium enrichment and threatened Wednesday that Iranian diplomats will withdraw from talks with European negotiators if they insist on such a suspension. Heavy water is used to moderate a nuclear chain reaction in a nuclear reactor.

Al Jazeera

The United States has said it hopes to hold talks with Iran soon and would be prepared to follow up on a plan to provide fuel for Iran's research reactor in exchange for low-enriched uranium. The plan was mooted in Geneva last October at a meeting...
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Germany calls on Ankara to work toward EU accession criteria

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, left, speaks to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara,

Daily Star Lebanon

By Agence France Presse (AFP) Thursday, July 29, 2010 - Powered by Nicolas Cheviron Agence France Presse ISTANBUL: Germany wants Turkey anchored in Europe but the country’s ultimate EU membership is not guaranteed, German Foreign Minister Guido...
photo: AP / Adem Altan. Pool

King Abdullah kicks off Arab tour in Egypt

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, right talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after his arrival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009. Egyptian officials said President Mubarak will brief King Abdullah on the Egyptian efforts to convince Hamas to accept an immediate cease-fire with Is

Daily Star Lebanon

Assad to accompany Saudi Monarch to Lebanon By The Daily Star Thursday, July 29, 2010 - Powered by BEIRUT: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah held talks on Wednesday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Sharm el-Sheikh, with talks mainly focusing...
photo: AP / Hassan Ammar

Hamas wants dialogue with Europe

Deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, and senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar talk after their Ramadan prayers in al-Garbi mosque at Shati refugee camp in Gaza City Sunday Sept. 16, 2007. Since Hamas' takeover in Gaza, violence has largely been contained to the roiling coastal strip _ where Israeli troops regularly battle Palestinian militants firing rockets into Israel _ while Israel has sought to bolster Abbas by reducing operations in the West Bank.

Gulf News

Gaza: Hamas is open to negotiating directly with European countries and has welcomed a recent call by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to enter into talks with the Islamist movement. Gaza-based Prime Minister Esmail Haniyeh said, on Sunday,...
photo: AP / Hatem Moussa

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