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The trial of Genaro Garcia Luna, once-powerful Mexican government minister who oversaw his country's war on drug trafficking and now charged with facilitating the smuggling of narcotics, opens in New York. The 54-year-old is the highest-ranking Mexican official to be charged in New York federal prosecutors' extensive pursuit of alleged drug traffickers from Central and South America and their ministerial accomplices. 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
Former Bosnian military commander Naser Oric, hailed by supporters as the heroic "defender of Srebrenica", is acquitted of war crimes during the country's 1990s conflict. The ruling sparked mixed reactions in the country deeply divided along ethnic lines -- slammed by ethnic Serbs as an "amnesty for war crimes" and welcomed by Muslims as the "final victory of justice". IMAGES
A young Afghan refugee goes on trial, accused of the rape and murder of a student, having earlier been convicted of assault in Greece. IMAGES of trial's opening
The trial begins for Owen Labrie, the man accused of raping a fellow student at St. Paul's School, from where numerous prominent leaders have graduated. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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