Raf Casert

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South Africa: Police charged with murder

Raf Casert · March 1, 2013 4:35 pm

In this still frame from TV and courtesy of South African Daily Sun newspaper, showing a South African man with his hands tethered to the back of a police vehicle being dragged behind as police hold his legs up and the vehicle apparently drives off, east of Johannesburg Tuesday Feb. 26, 2013. The man died of his injuries. In video filmed on a mobile phone, uniformed police are seen trying to subdue the man, then tethering him to the back of a police vehicle which drives off, watched by a large crowd. Moses Dlamini of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate said early Thursday Feb. 28 2013 on ENCA TV network that his service has opened a murder probe. (AP Photo/The Daily Sun) TV OUT

South African police, a force in turmoil

Raf Casert · February 28, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo, Carl Pistorius, right, and Henke Pistorius, the brother and father of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, charged with the shooting death of his girlfriend attend Oscar's bail hearing at the magistrate court in Pretoria, South Africa. A report by a local television station on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, revealed that Carl Pistorius is facing a charge of culpable homicide for the death of a woman knocked down on her motorbike in 2010. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Pistorius’ brother facing charge in traffic death

Raf Casert · February 25, 2013 5:00 am

Baggage carts make their way past a Helvetic Airways aircraft from which millions' of dollars worth of diamonds were stolen on the tarmac of Brussels international airport, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Eight armed and masked men made a hole in a security fence at Brussels' international airport, drove onto the tarmac and snatched millions of dollars' worth of diamonds from the hold of a Swiss-bound plane without firing a shot, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

$50 million in diamonds stolen at Brussels airport

Raf Casert · February 19, 2013 5:00 am

Belgian court keeps pedophile killer in prison

Raf Casert · February 18, 2013 4:29 pm

EU parliament pushes fish reform in landmark vote

Raf Casert · February 6, 2013 4:01 pm

EU summit to debate austerity budget, tough cuts

Raf Casert · February 6, 2013 2:05 pm

EU top court sides against Ryanair in volcano case

Raf Casert · January 31, 2013 7:53 pm

EU turns down UPS acquisition of TNT

Raf Casert · January 30, 2013 12:06 pm

AB InBev gets Bud back in EU court case

Raf Casert · January 22, 2013 10:12 pm

In front of the Mediterranean sea, a fisherman works fixing his net at the fishing port of Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. The European Unionâs executive Commission is calling for a new approach to protect dwindling fishery stocks and eliminate a system of setting catch quotas in which scientific advice is widely disregarded. The WWF wildlife group produced a report Friday highlighting how EU nations have exceeded scientific advice in all but 13 percent of their decisions on setting fisheries quotas over the past nine years. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

EU foresees ‘healthy’ level of fishing ahead

Raf Casert · December 20, 2012 11:44 am

European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy Tonio Borg holds up a mock package of cigarettes during a news conference on proposals to revise the Tobacco Products Directive, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

EU seeks move toward tougher smoking laws

Raf Casert · December 19, 2012 4:15 pm