India will try the 19 suspects in the July Mumbai train bombings case using special courts to speed up the legal process, the leader of the Mumbai Police anti-terrorism squad told Reuters Wednesday. India's...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told the BBC Wednesday that he expects Saddam Hussein to be executed before the end of the year , pending the conclusion of the appeal process. Al-Maliki seemed undeterred by the...
In the Matter of Complaints Regarding Various Television Broadcasts, US Federal Communications Commission, November 6, 2006 . Read...
Officials in several US states asked judges to extend polling hours in a number of areas Tuesday after problems with new electronic voting machines caused delays and left some voters unable to cast ballots in nationwide mid-term elections. By...
Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro said Tuesday that his office is once again pressing for the extradition of 26 Americans for their role in the alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping of Egyptian cleric...
Kyrgyzstan opposition party members and pro-government supporters announced Tuesday that they had reached a compromise in an effort to reform the country's constitution . Members of the country's parliament are expected to vote...
Iraq's Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that 57 members of its Shiite-led police force have been charged with torturing hundreds of detainees at a prison in eastern Baghdad. This is the first time the Iraqi government has filed charges against...
Lawyers in Jordan held a one-hour strike Tuesday to protest the death sentences imposed over the weekend against Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants in the Dujail crimes against humanity case [JURIST news archive; BBC trial...
The Australian Senate voted Tuesday to lift restrictions on stem cell research and permit the therapeutic cloning of human embryos. By a 34-32 vote, lawmakers approved the Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of...
Thai Prime Minister Chulanont Surayud Tuesday proposed a plan to the country's new military-led Council for National Security for lifting martial law in peaceful areas of the country. He...