Democratic Republic of Congo Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba filed an anticipated challenge to the results of last month's presidential run-off election in the country's Supreme Court...
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Congo presidential hopeful files high court election challenge
Ethiopians demonstrate against US female circumcision conviction
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Ex-Enron executives get reduced prison terms after co-operating with prosecutors
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Domestic surveillance lawsuit allowed to proceed
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US frees last Guantanamo detainees deemed not enemy combatants
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Cheney signals White House to continue backing conservative judges
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Chertoff says international law being used as ‘rhetorical weapon’ against US
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Bolivia leftist party gains leverage in constitutional assembly
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UN committee wants ‘political’ condemnations for rights abuses halted
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Florida authorities launch full criminal investigation of Foley messages
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About 300 protesters demonstrated Saturday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia , calling for a US retrial of Khalid Adem, a Ethiopian immigrant to the United States who earlier this month was convicted of circumcising his...
Texas US District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. sentenced former Enron executives Michael Kopper and Mark Koenig to 37- and 18-month prison terms respectively Friday for their role in the corporate scandal....
US District Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California ruled Friday that he will allow a class action lawsuit filed against the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday that it had released three detainees from Guantanamo Bay who Combatant Status Review Tribunals had determined not to be enemy combatants [JURIST...
Vice President Dick Cheney told the Federalist Society annual meeting in Washington Friday that the Bush administration plans to continue nominating conservative judges to the federal courts notwithstanding new Democratic control of Congress and...
US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned the national convention of the conservative Federalist Society in a speech Friday that international law was increasingly being used as a "rhetorical weapon" against the...
The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party of Bolivian President Evo Morales gained more power to rewrite the country's constitution over the objections of opposing political parties Friday when Bolivia's...
The UN General Assembly Third Committee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs has approved a draft resolution calling for an end to politically motivated condemnations of countries for human rights violations. The resolution, adopted Thursday, says...
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) has opened a full criminal investigation into former Republican congressman Mark Foley in connection with his sexually explicit computer messages to young male pages disclosed earlier...
