Judges delay Mladic trial due to errors
Judges delay Mladic trial due to errors
THE HAGUE, Netherlands
An apparent clerical error prompted judges to postpone the long-awaited war-crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic on Thursday, possibly for months.
The delay cast a shadow over one of the court’s biggest cases — and over the reputation of the court itself, where most prominent trials have proceeded at a snail’s pace, frustrating many victims.
It also highlighted problems faced by international tribunals in prosecuting sweeping indictments covering allegations of atrocities spanning years in countries far from the courts where defendants face justice.
6 shot, 3 dead in Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
A chaotic shooting scene that had curious crowds running for cover in a crime-ridden area of Louisville left three people dead and three others hospitalized Thursday.
The scene unfolded about 1 p.m. when two men were killed and two wounded in a shooting that attracted dozens of onlookers anxious for answers in the Russell neighborhood dotted with boarded-up houses. As police were investigating and a host of media gathered nearby, shots rang out about four houses down.
Two women had been arguing, and one shot and killed the other, police said. The startled crowds ran for safety, and officers with guns drawn headed down the street toward the shots.
After a few minutes, officers had fired at the shooter and sent her to the hospital, and paramedics worked on the woman she’s accused of killing, said Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad. They eventually stopped and pulled a white sheet over her body.
Closing arguments in Edwards trial
GREENSBORO, N.C.
Attorneys hammered at the credibility of John Edwards and his once-trusted aide as arguments in his campaign corruption trial ended Thursday, leaving jurors to decide whether the presidential candidate’s sex scandal cover-up amounted to a crime or a litany of lies.
Jurors begin deliberations today on six counts of campaign-finance fraud that could send Edwards to prison for up to 30 years.
Private rocket will fly to space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America’s space program.
If this unmanned flight and others like it succeed, commercial spacecraft could be ferrying astronauts to the orbiting outpost within five years.
It’s a transition that has been in the works since the middle of the last decade, when President George W. Bush decided to retire the space shuttle and devote more of NASA’s energies to venturing deeper into space.
Syrian opposition head offers to resign
BEIRUT
Syria’s main opposition council is crumbling under the weight of infighting and divisions over issues that cut to the heart of the revolution, including accusations that the movement is becoming as autocratic as the regime it wants to drive out.
The slow disintegration of the Syrian National Council, which has become the international face of the uprising, could complicate Western efforts to bolster the opposition, just as President Bashar Assad’s regime gathers momentum in its crackdown on dissent.
Associated Press