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...never accept the claim that an Iraqi woman was raped while Saddam is President. How could I walk with my head up?" SADDAM HUSSEIN, ousted Iraqi dictator, denying allegations that Kurdish women were raped in prison during his regime, at the opening of his second trial for crimes against humanity...
...perhaps too good to be true. From the start, skeptical anthropologists raised questions about the Flores team's claims. Did the remains found on Flores really belong to a special race of tiny humans? Now, in a paper published in the latest issue of the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), experts from the U.S., Indonesia and Australia have dashed cold water on the hobbit hypothesis. Based on their first-hand examination of the bones, the scientists concluded that Flores man isn't a member of a distinct human species. They claim instead that the specimen...
...galactic clusters, and along with Stark, he identified six candidate objects. To make certain that these were truly far away, the pair has come back to the Keck for a second, more intensive look. "We want to be absolutely sure we aren't fooling ourselves," says Ellis. "Before we claim we've really found them...
...more difficult, meanwhile, for Lebanese and U.N. forces to oversee the disarming of the group's fighters. That's good news for Iran, which wants to preserve Hizballah's military capacity as a deterrent against any possible U.S. or Israeli attack on Tehran's nuclear facilities. Although Hizballah officials claim that most of their money comes from charitable donations, an official interviewed by TIME acknowledged the importance of Tehran's support. "Thank God that Iran exists in this world," he said...
...Reuters television journalists were wounded on Sunday when an Israeli missile struck their armored car. The reporters' car was clearly marked "TV" and the crew were filming the destruction of an Israeli air raid when the missile struck. The Israeli military said the journalists' vehicle was acting suspiciously, a claim that the Foreign Press Association in Tel Aviv dismissed as "outrageous...