The Bangladesh government pledged Thursday to feed more than two million people left destitute by Cyclone Sidr amid warnings the country faces acute food shortages after the storm ravaged crops.
The pledge comes as officials and relief agencies struggle to get desperately needed rice, drinking water and tents to remote villages wrecked by the Nov. (Read content ‘Bangladeshis Face “Second Wave Of Death”‘…)
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Italian archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled the underground grotto believed to have been worshipped by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city’s legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus. (Read content ‘Rome’s Legendary “Wolf” Nursery Unveiled’…)
Two UK military personnel have been killed and two seriously injured in an RAF Puma helicopter crash near Baghdad in Iraq, defence officials have said.
An RAF Board of Inquiry is heading to Iraq to investigate Tuesday’s crash, but the Ministry of Defence said it was too early to speculate on the cause.
A ruling on his release will be issued at a later date, judges said.
Arguing that Duch could flee if freed, co-prosecutor Robert Petit said that the UN-backed court had a duty to the regime's victims to keep him detained.
"There is sufficient evidence to support his responsibility for the crimes he's being charged with," Petit said.
"We believe that Duch's detention is necessary to ensure his presence in the court," he told AFP following the court's first public hearing, seen by many as a landmark moment for a country trying to come to terms with its brutal past.
Duch, whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav, allegedly oversaw the torture and extermination of an estimated 16,000 men, women and children at the Khmer Rouge's Tuol Sleng prison during the regime's 1975-1979 rule.
He was arrested by the tribunal in July, becoming the first top Khmer Rouge cadre to be detained and charged with crimes against humanity ahead of a trial expected to take place next year.
Sitting grim-faced before the panel of five judges who will rule on his release, Duch, a 65-year-old former maths teacher, appeared to be closely following the proceedings.
As judges ended the hearing, he rose clasping his hands in front of him and said: "I ask the pre-trial chamber to release me on bail."
Duch's bail hearing followed the arrest Monday of another regime figure, head of state Khieu Samphan, who was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The arrest brought to five the number of former top cadres facing justice for one of the 20th century's worst atrocities.
Up to two million people were executed or died of starvation and overwork as the communist regime emptied Cambodia's cities, exiling millions to vast collective farms in a bid to forge an agrarian utopia during its rule.
The Khmer Rouge also abolished money, religion and schools.
Duch's lawyers argued that years spent imprisoned without trial by another court — he was first arrested by the government in 1999 — violated the law and was grounds for his release.
"Duch has been detained for eight years without trial.
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SINGAPORE (AP) — Crude oil prices rose to a record above $99 a barrel in Asian trading Wednesday, lifted by worries about inadequate supplies as the Northern Hemisphere enters winter and on news of refinery problems.
Analysts say the market is now looking at $100 a barrel as the next target to hit.
The declining U.S.
A painting stolen 20 years ago then found lying in a pile of rubbish on a New York City street has sold at auction for just over $1m (484,000).
The 1970 painting Tres Personajes (Three People) by Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo was taken from a warehouse where the owners had placed it while moving.
While critical of his imposition of the emergency on November 3, Washington has given General Musharraf, a crucial ally against al Qaeda, space to put things right before a parliamentary election on January 8 that the opposition could boycott.
"He has said he's going to take off his uniform, he's said there would be elections.
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This story was written and reported by CBS News technology analyst Larry Magid.
