Zimbabwe dropped a second treason charge against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday, clearing him of charges. Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was acquitted of plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe ...
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After strong Congressional opposition to an $18.5 billion offer from the China National Offshore Oil Company Ltd. (CNOOC) and a $17.3 billion bid from Chevron, CNOOC has announced that it will drop its offer completely...
Despite newly-uncovered e-mails from former US military prosecutors that characterize the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay as "rigged" and "a fraud", the Australian government is still backing a military trial for detained Australian David Hicks [JURIST news...
Khalil Dulaimi, an Iraqi defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , said Tuesday that he is boycotting the former president's trial after a man allegedly grabbed Hussein by the arm at a hearing last Thursday and tried to...
British officials are seeking the return of Hamdi Isaac, the suspected fourth bomber in the July 21 London bombing attempts . Isaac, an Ethiopian who was living in the UK under the name Osman Hussain and claimed to...
Uzbekistan Monday angrily denounced a UN airlift to Romania of Uzbek refugees who fled to Kyrgyzstan after a violent uprising in May 2005 in the Uzbek city of Andijan. The refugees were moved amidst fears...
The trial of Chicago resident Osyp Firishchak, 86, was set to begin Monday on charges that he was part of a Ukrainian police unit that worked for the Nazis by transporting thousands of Jews to concentration camps. The government...
Iran announced on Monday that it would resume uranium enrichment, effectively ending recent negotiations with the European Union . The International Atomic Energy Agency had urged Iran to continue with the negotiation process , but...
A new report released today by Human Rights Watch is adding to international concerns that a Colombian law intended to encourage paramilitary groups to disarm is too soft and would not allow...
An FBI memo obtained by Newsweek to be reported in its August 8 print edition warned three years ago that government officials could be prosecuted for planning transfers of terrorism suspects to countries that allow torture, a process called...
