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THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who had wanted to go to Russia for medical treatment, took drugs that worsened his health before dying in his prison cell, a Dutch medical expert said on Monday. Groningen University toxicologist Donald Uges told Reuters he thought Milosevic, whose body was released for burial after an autopsy and toxicology tests, had taken the drugs to improve his case for going to Russia, where his wife and son live. Milosevic, 64, who suffered from a heart condition and high blood pressure and was found dead in bed in his cell on...

The mystery surrounding the suicide of Nazi leader Hermann Goering that has befuddled historians for almost 60 years may have been solved by a conscience-stricken ex-GI who confesses that he gave Goering the cyanide capsule he used to kill himself on October 15, 1946. "I feel very bad about it," Herbert Lee Stivers told the Los Angeles Times, adding that it all came about because of a flirtation with a mysterious German girl. Stivers served as guard at the Nuremberg war crimes trials in 1946 where Goering, No. 2 man in Hitler's Nazi regime, was on trial with 21 other...