In today's world papers - more on last weekend's election in Burma, FARC hostages are released in Colombia and a look at the Falklands war, 30 years on.
Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, who indicted Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet, went on trial Tuesday for allegedly ordering illegal wiretaps. Garzon faces another trial next week involving his probe into atrocities during Spain's civil war.
An analysis of the exhumed remains of former Chilean president Salvador Allende has confirmed that he committed suicide during the September 1973 coup against his regime that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power.
Thursday's international papers have plenty to say about the relationship between sex and politics in France. We look at two women columnists in the US saying they've had enough of French machismo. Meanwhile, Chile digs up a 30 year old murder mystery, and a man in California comes up with an unusual way of getting back a stolen laptop.
The remains of former Chilean leader Salvador Allende have been exhumed in an effort to resolve a decades-old controversy over his death during a military coup on Sept. 11, 1973.
The remains of former Chilean president Salvador Allende will be exhumed to ascertain if he committed suicide, which was ruled as the official cause of death, or whether he was murdered during the 1973 coup, a judge ordered on Friday.
Chilean prosecutors have opened an investigation into the death of former President Salvador Allende (archive picture), whose apparent suicide during the 1973 military coup has long been questioned by politicians and human rights groups.
A Paris court on Friday slammed 13 Pinochet-era officials accused of having a hand in the disappearance of four French citizens in the 1970s with prison sentences of 15 years to life. The charges against them included kidnapping and torture.
The disappearance of four French citizens in the 1970s under Chile’s military regime is at the heart of a trial that gets under way Wednesday in Paris. Families of the victims say the case could offer them the justice they have so far been denied.
Thousands rallied across 28 Spanish cities Saturday to protest the trial of crusading judge Baltasar Garzon, as a rights group warned targeting him would undermine EU efforts to combat abuses.
