Argentina court convicts retired general, 4 others in 1976 killing during dictatorship

October 5th, 2009 Chilean officers get prison in arms deal cover upSANTIAGO, Chile — Four former top army officials were sentenced to prison Monday in the murder of a colonel shortly after he testified about an illegal deal to smuggle weapons to Croatia. The deal was exposed during the Balkan wars, when the United Nations outlawed weapons sales to Croatia.

September 30th, 2009 Ga. police arrest suspect in 1976 Mo. killingLAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.

September 30th, 2009 Convicted Paraguay torturers kept earning salariesASUNCION, Paraguay — Three police chiefs imprisoned for torture have finally have been fired after collecting their salaries from behind bars since 1995, Paraguay's interior minister said Tuesday. The former officials are serving 25-year terms in maximum security prison for human rights offenses under the dictatorship of Gen.

September 25th, 2009 Retired AF officer convicted in China spying caseALEXANDRIA, Va. — A jury has convicted a retired Air Force officer on charges of selling classified information on U.S.-China military relations to a Chinese agent and lying to the FBI about it.

September 14th, 2009 Argentina accuses Uruguay of int'l law breachTHE HAGUE, Netherlands — Argentina argued Monday at the U.N.'s highest court that Uruguay "flagrantly breached" international law by authorizing the construction of two pulp mills on the river that separates the two countries. One of the mills has already been built and Argentina's chief representative at the International Court of Justice, Susana Ruiz Cerutti, called it "a bad mill in a bad place." She told judges the mill that turns eucalyptus trees into pulp, the base ingredient for paper, already is pumping pollution into the waters of the River Uruguay and releasing foul-smelling gas into the air close to an Argentine tourist town.

September 10th, 2009 Retired gen. detained in Colombia massacre probeBOGOTA — Authorities say they have detained a retired army general as part of an investigation into the 2001 massacre of at least 26 people in southwestern Colombia.

August 28th, 2009 Uruguay: Remains not disappeared dissident'sMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — DNA testing has determined that skeletal remains found last year in an Uruguayan cemetery do not belong to the daughter-in-law of Argentine poet Juan Gelman. A forensic examiner had recommended that the remains be examined.

August 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Around 500 prisoners out of 80,000 will benefit from the remissions approved Wednesday by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari ahead of Independence Day, Aug 14. The approvals came on the advice of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, APP news agency reported.

July 24th, 2009 Spanish police arrest ex-Argentine police officialMADRID — Spanish police have arrested a former Argentine police official suspected of committing human rights abuses during the South American country's dirty war, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Friday. Jorge Alberto Soza was arrested July 7 in the eastern town of Ontinyent but details were not released immediately "for operational reasons," a police spokeswoman told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in keeping with force rules.

July 17th, 2009 Argentina attacks swine flu infection in pigsBUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Agricultural authorities in Argentina have declared an alert to prevent the spread of swine flu among pigs. Farm sanitation chief Jorge Dillon says the flu's symptoms are fairly benign for infected pigs and the pig outbreak poses no health risk to humans.

July 13th, 2009 Militant convicted in US diplomat killing in AmmanAMMAN, Jordan — Jordan's military court has convicted an al-Qaida militant in the 2002 slaying of a U.S. diplomat in Amman and sentenced him to death in a retrial.

June 24th, 2009 Public help sought in 1976 slaying of singer's exLOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide detectives on Tuesday asked the public's help in solving the 1976 rape and killing of the ex-wife of The Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley. Karen Klaas was attacked Jan.

May 1st, 2009 Brazilian court annuls dictatorship-era press lawBRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's Supreme Court has struck down a press censorship law enacted during a nearly quarter-century military dictatorship. In a 7-4 vote Thursday night, the court ruled the law unconstitutionally violated freedom of expression.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday filed in court its status report with respect to the revoking of the red corner notice against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in the Bofors gun payoff case and sought two months to consider its options. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja fixed the next date of hearing on Sep 8.

March 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A city court Monday sentenced five men to life imprisonment for kidnapping a businessman for ransom and expressed concern at instances of abduction increasingly acquiring an industry status. The court also imposed a fine of Rs.50,000 each on convicts Amar Misra, Satbir, Ravi, Mukesh and Rajender, after holding them guilty of kidnapping Sukhdayal Malik, a businessman dealing in spare parts, on July 16, 1994.