Leading Tuesday's international brief, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak admitted for the first time Tuesday that the recent month-long process of national voting for parliament seats and the Presidential office was flawed and should serve as a lesson...
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NY Port Authority wants jury verdict set aside in WTC bombing case
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has asked that a jury verdict finding it negligent in the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center be set aside. According to a...
80,000 US detainees since 9/11, alleged CIA secret prisons spark concern
The Pentagon released a report Friday indicating that over 80,000 people have been detained in numerous facilities world-wide since the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. The report comes amid increased criticism by human rights groups and European organizations...
NY Port Authority found negligent in 1993 World Trade Center bombing
A six-person jury on Wednesday found the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey negligent in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic radicals that killed six and injured 1,000. According...
A New York court Monday commenced proceedings in the civil trial arising out of the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center . The court will need to determine whether the Port Authority of New York and...
The Hamburg Supreme Court convicted Mounir el Motassadeq Friday of belonging to a terrorist organization and sentenced him to seven years in prison, but acquitted him of being an accessory to the murder of the over 3,000...
JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Laurent Pech, Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Union Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, says that the proposed European Constitution may be less than it's cracked up to be, and that its possible rejection...
US trade rep puts China on 'watch list' for copyright infringement
The US Trade Representative on Friday said the office had placed China on a "priority watch list" due to what the US considers rampant copyright infringement in the country. China was at the center of the US...
The trial of 24 suspected members of an al-Quaida cell in Spain began in Madrid Friday. Three of the suspects allegedly used Spain as a staging ground for the September 11, 2001 attacks against targets in...
World Trade Center leaseholder wins jury verdict in insurance battle
The leaseholder of the World Trade Center, destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, won a major legal victory Monday when a Manhattan jury agreed that the attack on the Twin Towers constituted two events for insurance purposes,...