Manfred Nowak, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , has voiced concern that countries are using diplomatic assurances to circumvent the absolute prohibition in the Convention against Torture against the forcible return to countries where there is...
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Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Jon Stanhope on Thursday became the first state or territory leader in Australia to reject the federal government's proposed anti-terrorism legislation in its current form. Stanhope's opposition focused...
Investment banks and other defendants associated with the WorldCom accounting fraud fallout have agreed to settle with a group of over 65 institutional investors for $651 million. The investors had opted out of a broader class...
After Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the US Supreme Court in a letter to President Bush Thursday, Republican and Democratic Senators who had generally been lukewarm about her nomination and skeptical of her experience and...
There will be no announcements in the investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity until Friday, a spokesperson for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said Thursday. The White House is waiting for news on...
The Supreme Court of China Thursday confirmed its plan to remove the authority from lower courts to review death sentences , which is expected to decrease the number of execution sentences currently given and...
Jose Padilla has filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court, asking the Court to place limits on the government's ability to hold him and other terror suspects indefinitely without...
The Constitutional Court in Malawi Wednesday issued a temporary injunction delaying impeachment proceedings by parliament against Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika until the court has the opportunity to review parliamentary guidelines regarding...
US Representative Tom DeLay has informed US House of Representative officials that he neglected to disclose all contributions made to his legal defense fund as mandated by congressional rules. DeLay told House officials that...
US officials and members of the Iraqi government have mismanaged $24 million in reconstruction grants made by the US in 2004, and fraudulent activities may have occurred in some of the cases, according to a report released...
