Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament, removed outspoken parliamentarian Malalai Joya on Monday after she unfavorably compared the parliament to a stable. Joya's remarks, made during a private television interview, held...
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Jumah Muhammad al-Dossari , a Bahraini detainee that has been held at Guantanamo Bay without charges since January 2002, threatened in a letter released Sunday by his lawyer that if he had "the opportunity ...
Harris Chowdhury, political secretary to former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia , was sentenced to three years incarceration on Monday on extortion and bribery charges. Chowdhury is the first senior political official of the former Bangladesh government,...
Pan-African Parliament officials said over the weekend that the recently approved investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Zimbabwe would be delayed. Zimbabwe has expressed strong opposition to the PAP...
The Indonesian attorney general's office announced Monday that it will reopen a corruption probe against Tommy Suharto , son of former President Haji Mohammad Suharto . The announcement, made by Director of Investigations Mohammad...
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in five argued cases Monday, including Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly , where the Court held that a plaintiff filing an antitrust...
Pakistan Supreme Court Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday Monday refuted arguments made by government lawyers that the Supreme Court of Pakistan should not "interfere with proceedings or assume jurisdiction" of the inquiry into alleged...
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that he believed a "sizable number" of Republican members of Congress would join Democrats in a vote of no-confidence in...
The White House over the weekend defended an immigration reform agreement reached Thursday with key Republican and Democratic senators which has drawn opposition from both aisles of Congress, threatening what President Bush called a "secure, productive, orderly,...
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany announced the resignation of Justice Minister Jozsef Petretei Sunday following the surfacing of multiple allegations of police corruption, including a high-profile case involving the alleged rape of a woman by...
