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UN expert calls for prosecution over US torture
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JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press 
December 10, 2014
GENEVA (AP) — Senior U.S. officials who authorized and carried out torture as part of former President George W. Bush's national security policy must ...
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UN: $16.4 billion needed to aid most vulnerable
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JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press 
December 8, 2014
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations appealed Monday for $16.4 billion to pay for global humanitarian needs in 2015, saying it needs that money to help 57...
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Migrant group: 500 feared dead after boat rammed
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JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press 
September 15, 2014
GENEVA (AP) — About 500 Syrians, Palestinians, Egyptians and Sudanese are feared to have died after their boat was rammed and sank off the Malta coast...
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At UN, Vatican sex abuse compared with torture
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JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press 
May 5, 2014
GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. committee compared the Vatican's handling of the global priest sex abuse scandal with torture Monday, raising the possibility tha...
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