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BBC special correspondent Allan Little met the "Butcher of Bosnia" in the early months of the Bosnian war.
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Jury deliberating in trial of Lindsay Clancy, US woman accused of killing her children
Prosecutors argued Clancy made a calculated decision to murder the children, while the defence argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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