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    World court throws out Georgia case claiming ethnic cleansing by Russia, separatist militias

    The United Nations' highest court threw out Georgia's complaint accusing Russia and separatist militias of years of ethnic cleansing in two breakaway Georgian provinces.Regarding Friday's 10-6 ruling, International Court of Justice President Hisashi Owada said the court had no jurisdiction in the case because Russia and Georgia had never attempted to negotiate a settlement to the dispute before Georgia brought it to the court.Toward the end of a five-day war in 2008, Georgia filed a complaint that Russian authorities and militias allied to Moscow murdered thousands of ethnic Georgians and displaced some 300,000 people in a two-decade campaign of discrimination in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.Georgia's deputy justice minister, Tina Burjaliani, said she regrets the case has been dismissed "on a procedural technicality" but said the ruling leaves open the possibility of filing a fresh case at a later date."We are certainly disappointed that proceedings will not immediately lead to the exami...

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