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‘Monster’
dad confesses
in Austrian abuse case
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AMSTETTEN, Austria: An elderly Austrian, portrayed by media as a
“monster”, confessed Monday to imprisoning his daughter in
a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children, prosecutors
said.
Josef Fritzl, 73, “has admitted
building the dungeon and to holding his daughter and three children
there,” prosecution spokesman Gerhard Sedlacek told Agence France-Presse.
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Ex-Iraqi deputy
PM’s trial begins before High Tribunal
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BAGHDAD: The trial begins in Iraq
on Tuesday of Tareq Aziz, former deputy premier and the
international face of the Saddam Hussein regime, on charges related
to the execution of 42 Baghdad merchants in 1992.
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Key Tibet
monastery reopens to public after March unrest
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BEIJING: China has reopened one
of Tibet’s biggest Buddhist monasteries in Lhasa, an official said
Tuesday, after violent unrest swept the Himalayan region last month.
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Japan confirms
deadly H5N1 bird flu in swans–official
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TOKYO: Japan has detected bird
flu of the virulent H5N1 strain for the first time in 13 months,
officials said Tuesday, following tests on a group of swans.
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ZIBO, China: Chinese authorities
Tuesday blamed excessive speed for the nation’s worst train crash
in more than a decade, amid fears the death toll would climb past
70.
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