U.N. expert wants to probe Iraq contractor killings
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The U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings said on Friday he plans to investigate deaths caused by the U.S. military and contractors in Iraq, including the recent Blackwater case in Baghdad.
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Officials investigate after at least eight Iraqi civilians are reported killed by private US security contractors.
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GENEVA, Aug 18  - United Nations human rights investigators on Wednesday called on Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to identify and hold accountable those behind the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees.
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U.N. investigators probing the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri have identified a number of people who may have been involved or known about it, their chief reported on Thursday.
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The U.N. Staff Union called on  Wednesday for an independent investigation into last week's  bombing of its offices in Algiers that killed 17 employees of  the world body.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hinted Monday at an independent probe of last month's twin suicide truck bombings that killed 17 U.N. staffers in Algeria.
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Reuters on Monday asked the U.S. military to conduct a full and objective investigation into the killing last week of two of its staff in Iraq after evidence emerged casting doubt on explanations given for their deaths.
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The government will examine claims 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the US-led invasion, Jack Straw says.
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Those behind the "cold-blooded murder" of 22 people at the United Nations office in Baghdad one year ago must be held to account, no matter how long it takes to find them, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday ordered a "professional and neutral" investigation into the cause of the violence that killed more than 50 people at a religious festival last week.
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HATRA, Iraq  - Investigators have conducted their  first scientific exhumation of Iraq's "killing fields,"  discovering hundreds of bodies which they hope will help  convict Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity.
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US and Iraq set up a joint commission to investigate a deadly shootout in Baghdad involving a US security firm.
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The FBI is sending a team of experts to look into last week's death of Georgia's premier and a car bombing that killed three policemen days earlier, the U.S. ambassador said Monday.
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The inquiry into the killing of   a former Lebanese prime minister has asked several countries to   help identify the presumed suicide bomber from a tooth and   other pieces of DNA, the chief investigator told the U.N.   Security Council on Friday.
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Iraq&#039;s prime minister Wednesday demanded an independent inquiry of the rape-slaying of a girl and the killing of her family, saying the immunity from Iraqi prosecution enjoyed by U.S. forces &quot;encouraged them to commit such crimes.&quot;
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Iraq wants to tighten control over security contractors after a deadly shooting incident involving the U.S. firm Blackwater, ending their long immunity from Iraqi prosecution, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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The head of a U.N. inquiry into the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri said on Monday he had made progress in analyzing the crime scene in Beirut and investigating suspects.