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Mass Grave of Jewish Holocaust Victims Found in Romania (Time.com)

November 12th, 2010

Time.com - Romania has long downplayed its role in the Holocaust, but the discovery of a mass grave of Jewish victims could force the country to face its past

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Mass grave of drug war victims found in Mexico: report (Reuters)

November 3rd, 2010

Forensic workers stand next to the remains of a body after finding a mass grave in Tuncingo on the outskirts of Acapulco November 3, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Mexican authorities near the Pacific resort city of Acapulco discovered a hidden mass grave filled with what they believed to be victims of the country’s drug war, local…

Victims pleaded for lives before being murdered (AP)

October 20th, 2010

Col. Russell Williams, left, who was the commander of CFB Trenton, Canada's largest military airbase, arrives at court in Belleville, Ontario, Canada on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. The Canadian Air Force officer has pleaded guilty to murdering two women, sexually assaulting two others and committing dozens of break-ins in which he stole underwear from the bedrooms of girls as young as 11. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)AP - The commander of Canada’s largest air force base stalked, repeatedly raped and killed two women as they pleaded for their lives, prosecutors said Tuesday at the colonel’s sentencing…

Pope meets with abuse victims as thousands protest (AP)

September 18th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI wipes his face as he conducts a mass in Westminster Cathedral in London, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day visit, the first ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday he was ashamed of the 'unspeakable' sexual abuse of children by priests, telling the British faithful during Mass in Westminster Cathedral that he was deeply sorry and hoped the church's humiliation would help victims heal. Benedict also said he hoped the church would be able to use its contrition to purify itself from the 'sins' of its ministers and be able to renew its commitment to educating the young. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)AP - Pope Benedict XVI apologized Saturday to five people who were molested by priests as children in his latest effort to defuse the sex abuse crisis shaking his church,…

Pope meets with victims, tells UK he’s sorry (AP)

September 18th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI, right, prays next to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, in the Shrine of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey, London, Friday Sept. 17, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI held joint prayers with the leader of the world's Anglicans on Friday in a symbolic act of unity on day two of the first-ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. (AP Photo / Lewis Whyld, Pool)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has met with victims of priestly sexual abuse and prayed with them even as abuse survivors and thousands of people opposed to his visit marched…

Pakistani flood victims celebrate Eid in tents (AP)

September 11th, 2010

A Pakistani girls paints hands of her friend with henna to celebrate the Eid, ending of fasting month of Ramadan in Hyderabad, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 10, 2010.(AP Photo/Pervez Masih)AP - Millions of Pakistani flood victims celebrated Islam’s most joyous festival in donated tents and makeshift shelters on Saturday as the country’s leaders — criticized for an inadequate response…

Russians mourn bombing victims; 6 others killed (AP)

September 10th, 2010

Investigators work at the site of a suicide car attack in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Russia, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010. Thursday's bombing near the central market of the capital of the North Ossetia republic was the most serious attack in Russia since the March subway bombings in Moscow that killed 40 people. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)AP - Clashes between police and alleged militants left six more people dead Friday in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus, even as stunned residents laid flowers in a square where a…

Day of mourning for Russian car bomb victims (AP)

September 10th, 2010

In this image made from television, the wreckage of a car destroyed in a suicide car attack is seen in a square outside a market in Vladikavkaz, North Caucasus, Russia, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. A suicide car bomber hit the central market of Vladikavkaz on Thursday, killing more than a dozen and wounding more than 130 people in one of the worst terror attacks in the volatile region in years, officials said. (AP Photo/AP Television News) ** IMAGE FROM TV** TV OUT **AP - Flags are at half-staff in the Russian Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz and stunned residents are laying flowers in a rubble-strewn square where a suicide car bombing killed 17…

Angelina Jolie meets flood victims in Pakistan (AP)

September 7th, 2010

In this photo provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, left, the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, sits with Pakistani flood-affected women during her visit to a camp for people displaced by heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/United Nations High Commission for Refugees, J. Tanner) ** NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE, EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - American movie star Angelina Jolie met flood victims in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday and appealed to the international community to provide aid needed to help the country recover from…

“Tony Blair: I cried for Iraq war victims” (AP)

September 1st, 2010

FILE - This is a Tuesday, March 23, 2010 file photo of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is now a special Mideast representative, addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington. Blair's book is a political memoir with celebrity trappings secrecy, security, controversy and a multimillion-dollar deal. Tony Blair's 'A Journey' is published Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010 promising to give readers behind-the-curtain insights into major world events from the death of Princess Diana to the Sept.11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)AP - Tony Blair’s long-awaited memoir says the former British prime minister doesn’t regret the Iraq war — although he wept for the victims — and carries revelations about the…

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