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Milosevic Exasperated Judges to the End

The ex-president’s defence case made little sense until you considered what it was he hoped to achieve by it.

15 Feb 10

The ICC needs the backing of regional states and the full support of the UN if it is to secure the arrest of leaders of the Lords Resistance Army.

15 Feb 10

One year after leaving the capital, a reporter returns to a ghost town.

15 Feb 10

The silencing of the country's last independent radio station.

15 Feb 10

The difficulties of working as an independent journalist in the Russian Caucasus.

15 Feb 10

Repressive policies from Central Asia governments have done nothing to curb the rise of the banned Islamic party.

15 Feb 10

Political violence at home has given the Zimbabwean refugees a serious image problem in their new homeland.

15 Feb 10

There are widespread fears that the eventual loser in the presidential race will revert to violence.

15 Feb 10

Now that Saddam has been convicted, Iraq's other criminals - its corrupt officials, militia leaders and terrorists - should be tried too.

15 Feb 10

Iraqi rulers have long employed the death penalty as a way of getting back at their enemies.

15 Feb 10

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