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U.N. peacekeepers and armed men exchanged fire during protests in the capital Bangui on Monday, amid mounting criticism against the MINUSCA mission.
At least one U.N. soldier is killed in Central African Republic during clashes with armed assailants in a northern neighbourhood of the capital, Bangui. Pavithra George reports
A demonstration is held in Stockholm ahead of the first testimony of a former Iranian prison official accused of handing out death sentences during a 1988 purge of dissidents in a landmark trial in Sweden. Hamid Noury, 60, has been on trial in Stockholm's district court since August on charges including murder, crimes against humanity and war crimes. They stem from the period between July 30 to August 16, 1988, when he was allegedly assistant to the deputy prosecutor of Gohardasht prison in Karaj, near Tehran. IMAGES
The trial of a 100-year-old former concentration camp guard, the oldest accused of Nazi crimes ever tried in the country, opens in Germany. Josef Schütz, a former master corporal in the Waffen-SS's "Totenkopf" (Death's Head) division, is on trial for "knowingly and willingly" assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners when he operated in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, not far from Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. IMAGES
Several hundred protesters gather outside a Stockholm court carrying photos of the dead as the trial of a former Iranian prison official accused of involvement in the 1988 execution of thousands of political dissidents starts in Stockholm. Protesters are calling for justice for the estimated 5,000 prisoners killed across Iran, allegedly under the orders of supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini in reprisal for attacks carried out by the MEK at the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88. IMAGES
Bangui, Jan 4 (EFE / EPA) .- The president of the Central African Republic (CAR), Faustin-Archange Touadera, was victorious in the elections of December 27 with 53.92% of the votes, according to the provisional results announced Monday by the National Elections Authority (ANE).(Camera: ADRIENNE SUPRENANT)SHOT LIST: CELEBRATIONS FOLLOWING FAUSTIN-ARCHANGE TOUADERA'S VICTORY IN BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUPLIC.