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Prosecutors have asked a judge to drop a sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. They told a New York judge they were “no longer convinced of the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt”. The case – based on an accusation by hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo – crumbled in recent weeks over questions [...]
Egyptian authorities say the trial of deposed President Hosni Mubarak’s trial will be moved from a Cairo convention centre, for security reasons. The trial, due to open on Wednesday, will now be held at a police academy further from the city centre. Mr Mubarak, 83, has been under arrest at a hospital in the coastal [...]
With four days remaining until the United States hits its debt limit, President Barack Obama on Friday told deeply divided Republicans and Democrats to stop bickering and find a way “out of this mess.” Obama said a deficit-reduction plan being advanced by the top Republican in Congress would be defeated in the Democratic-led Senate and [...]
North Korean landmine parts apparently churned up by torrential rains have washed up across the border in South Korea, prompting a search for more weapons, the defense ministry said Saturday. The wooden shells of two North Korean landmines were found Thursday in a cistern near the Hantan River in Cheolwon County, just south of the [...]