Four Americans on trial for Connecticut artist murder
A taxi driver testified that she heard screams from a rocky Tortola beach around midnight on January 14 as Lois Livingstone McMillen was found dead. Four others, Michael Spicer, Evan George, Alexander Benedetto, and William Labrador, were arrested hours later in connection with the killing. The victim, 34, from Waterbury, vacationed on Tortola with her parents.
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Connecticut
Beulah Romney
Romney
Lois Livingstone McMillen
McMillen
Waterbury
Conn
Tortola
Michael Spicer
Virginia
Evan George
Washington D.C
Alexander Benedetto
New York
Willian Labrador
Southampton
N.Y
Drug lord arrest marks Mexico’s new crackdown effort
A top lieutenant of a Gulf cartel allied gang and 19 subordinates were arrested in a raid that yielded 35 rifles 36 pistols and several grenades. Police reported no formal charges yet and noted the arrests as Mexico’s new administration’s first major success against trafficking.
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Gulf Cartel
Gilberto Garcia
Martha Sahaguin
Mexico
Arellano Felix Cartel
Vicente Fox
Joaquin “el Chapo” Guzman
Milosevic facing wider Yugoslav charges and Hague case
Yugoslavia widened criminal probes against Slobodan Milosevic charging incitement to violence after guards fired on police during an attempted arrest. Milosevic defended his arrest from Belgrade’s Central Prison and sought release. He also disclosed financing the Bosnia and Croatia wars, while UN tribunal prepares additional indictments including genocide. US aid linked to Belgrade cooperation with the court.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milosevic
Milosevic
Sreten Lukic
Serbia
Sinisa Vucinic
Marija
Bosnia
Croatia
United Nations
Hague
Netherlands
Kosovo
Carla del Ponte
del Ponte
Switzerland
United States
U.S
Washington
State Department
Colin Powell
U.N. Court
Oil spill fouls Danish coast in bird deaths
Danish coast sees vast oil spill after a freighter and a tanker collide in the Baltic. About 1,000 birds have died or are dying, with 764,000 gallons spilled. 59,000 gallons remain on beaches as crews work to pump remaining fuel and clear polluted shorelines. Ships and land crews, including 200 on land and 200 at sea, salvage efforts and barriers were deployed near Moen, Bogoe, and Falster.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Baltic Sea
Tervi
Moen
Bogoe
Falster
Danish Forest and Nature Agency
Finn Jensen
Knud Flensted
Danish Ornithological Society
Jes Holm
Bjarne Jensen
Jensen
Maen
U.N. rights chief reverses plan to step down
Mary Robinson, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, reversed her decision to resign and requested a one year extension beyond her four year term. The move came after expressions of regret from many quarters and amid no clear successor, with Annan and Robinson in Nairobi at a U.N. agencies meeting.
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United Nations
Mary Robinson
U.N
Robinson
Kofi Annan
Nairobi
Kenya
Annan
Geneva
Associated Press
Mont-Pelerin
U.N. Human Rights Commission
Irish Republic
Birth parents seek Hague ruling in twin adoption case
In London, a High Court hearing focused on whether 9 month old American twins adopted via the Internet were abducted children. Lawyers for the twins' biological parents urged a Hague Convention declaration while the Welsh social services agency sought wardship. The case spans Britain, the United States and media exposure on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The judge weighs return options to the Kilshaw's Arkansas appeal and possible US custody jurisdiction.
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Lonbon
London
High Court
Andrew Kirkwood
Tranda
Aaron Wecker
St. Louis
Kirkwood
David Liddemore
Lord Chancellor's Department
United States
Britain
Social Services Agency
Judith
Alan Kilshaw
Liddemore
Arkansas
Kilshaws
Skirmish and protests as Macedonia faces border flare up
Skirmish erupts on the tense Macedonia Kosovo border ending a two day lull with small arms fire and a rebel wounding a fighter. Demonstrators jeer a European envoy while an ethnic Albanian party boycotts reform talks. NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo report a large arms cache near Krivenik including 32 RPGs and 80 boxes of ammunition as authorities investigate source.
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Skopje
Macedonia
Kosovo
Krivenik
Alayne Cramer
Associated Press
Kerem Lawton
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New People's Army
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
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Radio Mindanao Network
Jeffrey Schilling
Danish
Flensted
Germany
Tern
Phata
U.N. Rights
Blagoja Markovski
Selce
Tetovo
Markovski
Tra’s & Roth
Ira’s Mutual Funds
College
Travis Postlethwaite
Waddell
St. Luken Lawrence
Journal-World
Marlboro
Marlburg
Iowa
East
23Rd Street
Common Sense
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Vesta
Lawrence School Board
Randy Renfro
CPA
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