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The trial involving ousted President Mohammed Morsi began Monday in "a charged atmosphere," Russia Today reported."Down with military rule," his fellow Muslim Brotherhood members chanted, according to reports.Morsi, who had not been in public since June 3, has been charged for the incitement of killing protesters " "who massed outside the presidential palace in December 2012 and demanded that he call off a referendum on a new Islamist-drafted constitution."

Five arrests were made in north Mali on Monday following the abduction and murders of two French journalists, Ghislane Dupont and Claude Verlon on Saturday. News reports said that the journalists were taken in the troubled city of Kidal, just after they finished an interview with a rebel leader in the area. They were reportedly killed by gunfire after they had been abducted.

Michael Hart, a police officer from Skokie Illinois, was charged with aggravated battery and official misconduct for shoving a woman who had been charged with a DUI in a police station lock-up, news reports said. The deliberate shove caused serious injuries to her face,