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Malabo Equatorial Guinea - A court in Equatorial Guinea has indefinitely suspended the trial of Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister, who is charged with helping plot a coup attempt in the West African country. The suspension comes after a request by Attorney General Jose Olo Obono, who said new information about the case was coming out every day. Thatcher, who is under house arrest in Cape Town, denies all the charges. The 51-year-old businessman is the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. The Hague - The trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Tuesday, with the ex-leader dismissing accusations of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. In his statement, Milosevic portrayed the Serbs as victims of a plan supported by the U.S. and Europe to break up Yugoslavia and wipe out Croatia's Serb minority. Paris - Two French journalists being held in Iraq called on French President Jacques Chirac Monday to give in to their kidnappers' demands and rescind a ban on Muslim headscarves in state schools. "I appeal to the French people to go to the streets ... because our lives are threatened," journalist Georges Malbrunot said in English. The French government remained firm that it will not overturn the law, despite the demands of the journalists' captors.
