Justice Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola , President of the Special Court of Sierra Leone , the tribunal created by the UN to hear cases of serious crimes committed during the West African country's civil war, warned ...
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Robert Parton, who resigned last month as senior investigative counsel for the Independent Inquiry Committee into the defunct UN Oil-for-Food Program , has handed over potentially incriminating documents to a US congressional committee. The...
A Spanish judge has charged 11 additional suspects with participating in the Madrid commuter train bombings that in March 2004 killed 191 and injured 1,900, bringing the total charged up to 101 people. Included in Thursday's indictment is Driss...
Despite a low 61% turnout and an undisputed third-term victory for Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party in Thursday's UK election, officials from the UK Electoral Commission [official...
Francois Roux, a French lawyer advising Aicha El Wafi, the mother of indicted US terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, the French citizen who earlier this week pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy stemming from the September 11th terrorist attacks,...
Senate majority leader Bill Frist, in a taped statement to be aired Sunday evening, urged conservatives to recognize that judges "deserve respect, not retaliation no matter how they rule," and defended his actions to stop Democrats...
Florida became the first state in the nation to fully privatize its child welfare program after signing a $75 million contract Friday, transferring management of the last 2 remaining counties under governmental oversight. The agreement with Our...
Chinese officials say they will ask China's top legislative panel, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress , to settle a term limit dispute between Beijing and pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong. The issue arose last...
The Canadian Parliament will vote Tuesday on opposition-proposed amendment to Bill C-38 , the federal legislation that would extend civil marriage to same sex couples. The amendment introduced by federal Conservative party...
France's far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen , who surprised observers with his strong performance in the 2002 French presidential election, has called for voters to reject the proposed European Constitution in a May...
