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November 20, 2009
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Tories dismiss Afghan torture claim
A top diplomat’s account of the rampant torture and rape of Afghan detainees is not credible, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Thursday as he rebuffed opposition calls for a full public inquiry into “massive and systemic” government cover-up. Full Story
Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, although medical experts say they doubt a major market for fat exists.
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A body believed to be that of a Brazilian prostitute involved in a scandal that brought down the governor of the Rome area was found in an apartment fire Friday in the Italian capital, police said. Full Story
Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday.
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Sarah Palin’s tour to promote her new memoir will include a stop at Fort Hood to benefit the victims of the shooting rampage and their families. Full Story
A rarely seen French secret report on Adolf Hitler is among thousands of documents on 1920s Germany that are about to emerge from obscurity as part of a major overhaul of the French National Archives. Full Story