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| Emotional Pistorius takes stand in own defence at murder trial |
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 PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand in his own defence at his murder trial on Monday, saying the shooting of his girlfriend had left him sleepless, terrified and plagued by nightmares. He also apologised to the mother of Reeva Steenkamp in the public gallery, saying he fired four shots through a toilet door in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year in the belief that he was defending her from an intruder. "I was simply trying to protect Reeva," he told the court, his voice quavering with emotion. ...
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| Egypt court upholds jailing of prominent pro-democracy activists |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian appeals court upheld on Monday the jailing of three prominent liberal pro-democracy activists, the judge said. Last December, a court handed out three-year jail sentences to Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohamed Adel, symbols of the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, for protesting without permission and assaulting the police. (Writing by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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| Pistorius retches during graphic forensic testimony |
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 By David Dolan PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African track star Oscar Pistorius wept and retched into a bucket in court on Monday during graphic forensic testimony about the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, whom he is accused of murdering on Valentine's Day last year. As the first defence witness, forensic pathologist Jannie Botha, described the multiple bullet wounds sustained by Steenkamp, the 27-year-old Paralympic and Olympic sprinter sat in the dock with his head buried in his hands. Convulsed by sobbing he threw up occasionally into a plastic bucket, as happened during previous sessions last month when the court heard details of Steenkamp's autopsy and reviewed pictures of the blood-stained toilet and bathroom. Pistorius, nicknamed the "Blade Runner" due to the carbon-fibre prosthetic limbs he uses in competition, is accused of killing Steenkamp deliberately by firing four rounds from a 9 mm pistol through a locked toilet door after an argument.
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