The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has confirmed its ruling that a Polish woman's rights were violated when she was denied an abortion based on medical concerns that the pregnancy may cause her to go blind. Alicja Tysiac...
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The Israeli Attorney General announced Monday that he was opening an investigation into a real estate purchase made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert . The criminal probe centers on a Jerusalem apartment for which Olmert paid the...
South African President Thabo Mbeki suspended National Prosecuting Authority chief Vusi Pikoli Monday, citing a strained relationship between Pikoli and his superior, Minister of Justice Bridget Mabandla , as the primary motive for the suspension. Pikoli...
Closing arguments began Monday in the case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development , a Muslim foundation charged with financing international terrorism by supporting the Palestinian group Hamas . Once the largest Muslim charity...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso Monday called on the UK to support the proposed EU Reform Treaty . During a speech to delegates of the UK Liberal Democratic Party , Barroso...
The European Union said Monday that it will only sign a new pre-membership aid and economic deal with Serbia when that country has demonstrated its cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) . Carla...
Charles McArthur Emmanuel , son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, pleaded not guilty Monday to a US federal indictment charging him with involvement in killings and torture in Liberia. Emmanuel, a Boston-born US citizen, was the...
California resident Hamid Hayat was sentenced to 24 years in a federal prison Monday following his 2006 conviction for supporting terrorism and lying to the FBI. Because Hayat had no prior criminal record, US...
A prominent Russian lawyer and government critic was accused Tuesday of disclosing state secrets about government wiretapping to the Russian Constitutional Court . Boris Kuznetsov fled the country recently after a city court...
US District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled Tuesday that prosecutors had produced enough evidence in the trial of Jose Padilla and his co-defendants that the case should go to a jury, rejecting a motion for acquittal filed...
