Lawyers for Saddam Hussein turned to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Thursday, asking it to investigate alleged violations of law regarding his treatment and that of defense witnesses by US personnel. A copy of...
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Five special rapporteurs making up the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday called on the US to set a date for...
Mexican ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon narrowly won Sunday's presidential election with some 220,000 votes more than leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , according to...
The European Parliament adopted an interim report Thursday that agrees with earlier findings by the Council of Europe (COE) that European states were complicit in alleged incidents of CIA extraordinary rendition . The report [EP...
Iraqi officials and local leaders have stepped up pressure on the US military to take swift corrective action in the face of allegations that troops raped an Iraqi woman and murdered her and her family near the town of...
Work on the new interim constitution of strife-torn Nepal formally began Thursday, the six-person Interim Constitution Drafting Committee (ICDC) announced at a press conference. The ICDC, formed three weeks ago in a historic contract [text; JURIST...
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has criticized Iraq's recently-announced most-wanted list , implicitly taking National Security Adviser Mowafaq al-Rubai'i to task for including two women, Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter Raghad and...
Hollinger Inc. , the Canadian holding company with an interest in the newspaper publisher Hollinger International , filed a lawsuit Thursday in an Ontario court against former CEO Conrad Black and other...
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a record-setting jury verdict that had awarded $145 billion in punitive damages in a class action challenge brought by smokers against tobacco companies. The Court vacated...
An Israeli military tribunal Wednesday extended the detentions of five Palestinian Hamas lawmakers for an additional five days. The five - four MPs and one cabinet member - challenged the authority of the Israel Defense Forces court...
