Trayvon Martin Killer Wanted to Shoot, Prosecutor Says
By Andrew Harris & Christopher Boyd
George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer accused of murdering Trayvon Martin, didn’t shoot the teenager in self-defense, a prosecutor told a jury of six women at the start of trial in Florida.
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Seven killed in worst-ever attack on UN workers in Afghanistan
Seven United Nations workers have been executed in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, two of them by beheading, by demonstrators protesting the burning of a Koran at a church in Florida.
By Dean Nelson, New Delhi and Farhad Peikar in Kabul
The victims of the worst-ever attack on UN personnel in Afghanistan included five guards from Nepal, and civilian staff from Norway, Sweden and Romania. Four local residents were also killed.
UN officials told The Daily Telegraph the final toll could rise as high as 20, and there were unconfirmed reports that the head of the United Nations Military Assistance Mission (Unama) in Mazar-e-Sharif had also been seriously injured …
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By Paul J. Richards, AFP News
A controversial US evangelical preacher oversaw the burning of a copy of the Koran in a small Florida church …
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