The trial of a Lithuanian man accused of murdering a mother and daughter, also from Lithuania, at the Central Criminal Court in Tralee has been shown CCTV footage of his movements on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

A former defence minister from a powerful political clan who oversaw a major weakening of leftist rebels won Colombia’s presidency, routing an eccentric outsider in a runoff.

COLOMBIANS voted for a successor to President Alvaro Uribe yesterday in what was expected to be a rout favouring a former defence minister who oversaw a major weakening of leftist rebels.

Suspected rebels rained mortar shells onto downtown Bogota and the presidential palace as hard-liner Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as president of Colombia.