An Israeli Cabinet official admitted for the first time Sunday that Israel employed phosphorous bombs against Hezbollah guerillas during this summer's conflict in Lebanon . Israeli Cabinet Minister Jacob Edery confirmed that the...
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Rogelio Pfirter , director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has urged North Korea and several Middle Eastern countries, including Egypt, Israel, Lebanon and Syria, to join the Chemical Weapons...
US District Judge Lewis Babcock upheld Colorado's ban on smoking in indoor public places Friday, despite allegations that it discriminates in favor of casinos at the expense of bar owners. Babcock dismissed a suit challenging the constitutionality of the...
US Marine Pfc. John J. Jodka will plead guilty in connection with the April 26 death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania , according to Jodka's lawyer speaking Friday. The guilty...
Chinese human rights attorney Gao Zhisheng has been charged with inciting subversion of state power , according to a statement by his lawyer. Gao has been detained without access to his lawyer, Mo Shaoping, since August...
Peruvian rebel leader Abimael Guzman was found guilty of aggravated terrorism Friday and sentenced to life in prison by a Peruvian civil tribunal in Callao. Guzman founded the Shining Path guerilla movement in 1980 and...
The Serbian Radical Party unanimously reelected an indicted war criminal to head it at a meeting in Belgrade Sunday. Vojislav Seselj , a former close ally of late ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST news...
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers expressed doubts about whether non-violent offenders are actually rehabilitated in prison during an interview published Sunday in the British newspaper The Observer. In light...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper told US President George W. Bush in a telephone conversation Friday that Canada was filing an official protest regarding the US treatment of Maher Arar , a Canadian citizen detained...
The US Government Accountability Office says that erroneous terror watch lists are delaying thousands of travelers moving in and through the United States. A GAO report on the lists published last...
