South Korea officially removes Japan from its "whitelist" of countries with fast-track trade status.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
At least 27 people, a majority of them children, are killed in a fire caused by an electrical problem at a boarding school in a suburb near the
Liberian capital of
Monrovia.
(BBC News)
Prosecutiors in the case of the latest attempt to kill Samoan Prime Minister
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi announce that
Eletise Leafa Vitale, convicted of the assassination of one of Malielegoai's cabinet members in another failed attempt at killing him in 1999, will testify in the trial against the conspirators of this year's plot.
(RNZ)
The
NGOHuman Rights Watch publishes details of what it deems to be arbitrary executions and arrests in Venezuela. The Venezuelan government alleges that most of those listed in the report were armed criminals, but admits to have placed several hundred security agents under investigation for abuses of power and extrajudicial actions.
(Human Rights Watch)
Dutchlawyer Derk Wiersum has been shot to death near his home. At the time of his death he was the lawyer of
state witness Nabil Bakkali in the
Marengo-proces against the Mocro Maffia led by Ridouan Taghi.
(BBC News)
South Korea officially removes Japan from its "whitelist" of countries with fast-track trade status.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
At least 27 people, a majority of them children, are killed in a fire caused by an electrical problem at a boarding school in a suburb near the
Liberian capital of
Monrovia.
(BBC News)
Prosecutiors in the case of the latest attempt to kill Samoan Prime Minister
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi announce that
Eletise Leafa Vitale, convicted of the assassination of one of Malielegoai's cabinet members in another failed attempt at killing him in 1999, will testify in the trial against the conspirators of this year's plot.
(RNZ)
The
NGOHuman Rights Watch publishes details of what it deems to be arbitrary executions and arrests in Venezuela. The Venezuelan government alleges that most of those listed in the report were armed criminals, but admits to have placed several hundred security agents under investigation for abuses of power and extrajudicial actions.
(Human Rights Watch)
Dutchlawyer Derk Wiersum has been shot to death near his home. At the time of his death he was the lawyer of
state witness Nabil Bakkali in the
Marengo-proces against the Mocro Maffia led by Ridouan Taghi.
(BBC News)