Ex-Panama dictator Noriega to be freed from US prison in September
Ex-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega , who has spent the last 17 years in US custody, including 15 years in federal prison on drug trafficking and racketeering charges, is to be released on September 9, 2007 ,...
US court sentences former Ukraine PM to nine years prison for money laundering
At the end of the first US trial of a foreign head of government since that of Panama's Manuel Noriega, a US federal judge in San Francisco Friday sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko ...
UN ambassadors from Panama and South Africa Thursday circulated a draft compromise resolution in the UN General Assembly outlining provisions for a UN Human Rights Council to replace the current 53-member Commission on Human Rights...
Canadian Prime Minister-designate Stephen Harper , elected earlier this week and slated to be sworn in February 6 by Canada's Governor-General , went out of his way at his first news conference Thursday to reassert the...
Hiding Behind 'Principles': The US and the Geneva Conventions
JURIST Guest Columnist Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that US claims of adherence...
The US will phase in by 2008 tighter border controls requiring US citizens re-entering the country from Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda to have passports, US officials announced Tuesday. Under the new rules made public by the State Department...
