Argentinean judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral declared former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other Iranian officials fugitives from justice on Friday. The nine failed to respond to arrest warrants issued...
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The chief prosecutor in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial said Sunday that audio tapes and documentation proving that Hussein personally ordered the 1988 gassing of Kurdish villagers will be submitted to the court hearing his case. Munqith...
The UN Security Council Tuesday approved a proposal for an international tribunal to try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri . In a letter from the 15-person body...
US Marine Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr. was sentenced to a maximum 21-month confinement Tuesday after pleading guilty at court-martial to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the alleged murder and kidnapping...
US Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) said Sunday he plans to introduce legislation in the next session of Congress to reinstate the military draft in the United States. Interviewed on CBS TV program Face the Nation [program website;...
Iran's parliament passed a bill Sunday instituting mandatory fingerprinting of all visiting US citizens. The predominantly conservative Majlis passed the bill by a margin of 135 to 26, and will next hand it to the...
Vice President Dick Cheney told the Federalist Society annual meeting in Washington Friday that the Bush administration plans to continue nominating conservative judges to the federal courts notwithstanding new Democratic control of Congress and...
The UN General Assembly Third Committee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs has approved a draft resolution calling for an end to politically motivated condemnations of countries for human rights violations. The resolution, adopted Thursday, says...
A close associate of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told AP Friday that al-Maliki was unaware of a controversial plan by Shiite Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani to arrest Sunni leader Harith...
Democrats in the US Congress will introduce legislation this week to maintain the authority of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) , according to the New York Times Sunday. SIGIR was originally established to independently supervise...
