Supreme Court offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be decentralized and spread to various parts of the capital city of Kinshasa, or even to other Congolese cities, following fire damage to one-third of the...
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An Iraqi general and three senior officers have been arrested on accusations of corruption, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Salam al-Zawba'i told Reuters Wednesday. Although the reported arrest has not been confirmed by the US...
A federal judge in New Orleans Wednesday rejected a bid to have all federal lawsuits against Merck & Co. brought in connection with the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx consolidated in...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame Wednesday derided the recommendation of French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere that he stand trial for the 1994 killing of former president Juvenal Habyarimana as "bullying and arrogant."...
An Italian judge Wednesday refused the request of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to have one of the judges removed from presiding over his tax fraud trial. Berlusconi and co-defendant David Mills [Guardian...
A coalition of advocacy groups filed a lawsuit in Florida Tuesday claiming that officials in Sarasota County failed to investigate or report various alleged malfunctions with the touch-screen voting machines and are calling for a re-vote in...
Torture and ill-treatment in Russia is regularly used to extract confessions from suspects , according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International . Noting that Russia was in violation of its national and international...
The US Justice Department has withdrawn its notice of appeal of a federal judge's decision to vacate the conviction of former Enron founder Ken Lay . Lay, convicted ...
Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Lebanon, UN Human Rights Council, November 10, 2006; released November 21, 2006 [reporting that Israel's use of force against civilians during its 33-day campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon was "excessive, indiscriminate and disproportionate"...
Brief Amicus Curiae of Former Senior Justice Department Officials, Ali-Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri v. Wright, November 20, 2006 [opposing an interpretation of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) that would deny suspected terrorists held in the US access to the...
