Pakistani Minister for Law and Justice Farooq Naek told reporters Friday that the superior court judges the government had returned to office after their November 2007 ouster under then-president Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule had been...
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China's State Council on Friday ended the authority of the state-run Xinhua News Agency to screen foreign financial and other news entering the country. In a decree signed by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao , the...
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro on Thursday called on US President Barack Obama to turn over control of the Guantanamo Bay military base to Cuba once the detention...
The Cameroon government has participated in and encouraged unlawful executions, torture, and other human rights violations of political dissenters, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report released...
Cameroon: Impunity Underpins Persistent Abuse, Amnesty International, January 29, 2009 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...
United States of America v. Abd al-Rahim Hussein Mohammed Abdu Al-Nashiri, US Military Commissions, January 29, 2009 . Read the full text...
The Illinois State Senate voted unanimously Thursday to convict Governor Rod Blagojevich of abuse of power and remove him from office. Blagojevich, who had been boycotting the impeachment proceedings , arrived...
The European Commission announced Thursday that it has initiated infringement proceedings against ten European Union (EU) member states for failing to comply with legislation aimed at reducing emissions of certain harmful airborne particulates...
Moscow's Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeals on Thursday declared void most of the Russian government's tax claims against the British Council , the British government's cultural relations arm, relating to the organizations in-country operations in 2004-2006....
The chief judge for US military commissions at the Guantanamo Bay detention center rejected Thursday the request of government prosecutors to delay the proceedings against alleged USS Cole plotter...
