The UN Security Council on Wednesday delayed a US attempt to bring Myanmar before the council over what the US described as a deteriorating political and human rights situation. US Ambassador John Bolton ...
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UPDATE ~ UN Security Council delays US push to consider Myanmar
Japanese PM supports constitutional amendment to increase military role
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Human Rights and Responsibilities in the Age of Terror [fmr. Australia PM Malcolm Fraser]
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Turkish appeals court orders retrial of Islamist cleric convicted of airplane plot
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US general blames Iraqi commanders for detainee abuse
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Former Hollinger executives skip US arraignment on fraud charges
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Fraud claims dismissed against ex-HealthSouth CEO
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Connecticut to press No Child Left Behind challenge despite Michigan dismissal
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Federal judge rules Blackberry settlement invalid
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Former Canadian PM Chretien challenges report on sponsorship scandal
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday said that the country's constitution should be amended to allow the country to increase its military for national security purposes. Koizumi said that the country could not defend itself without...
Human Rights and Responsibilities in the Age of Terror, Rt. Hon. Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia, Chancellor's Human Rights Lecture, University of Melbourne, November 29, 2005 [accusing the current Australian Liberal party government of pursuing laws - including...
The Supreme Court of Appeals of Turkey on Wednesday overturned the life sentence of Metin Kaplan , an Islamist cleric convicted on charges of plotting to fly an aircraft into the mausoleum of Turkeys...
US Lieutenant-General Martin Dempsey said Wednesday that he thought Iraqi commanders were responsible for recent cases of detainee torture by Iraqi security forces. Dempsey, who oversees the US program to train security forces in Iraq [JURIST news...
Former Hollinger International Inc. executives Jack Boultbee and Peter Atkinson failed to appear on Wednesday at the federal court in Chicago to be arraigned on fraud charges. Both Boultbee, who is charged with eight counts of fraud,...
US District Judge Inge P. Johnson of the Northern District of Alabama on Wednesday dismissed fraud charges against former HealthSouth Corp. CEO, Richard Scrushy because the charges were not specific. Johnson will allow...
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has promised to continue a state challenge to funding under the federal No Child Left Behind Act despite the dismissal of separate...
US District Judge James R. Spencer of the Eastern District of Virginia Wednesday rejected the disputed settlement pact between the maker of the Blackberry communications device, Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) ,...
Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Wednesday filed a legal challenge to a report issued by Justice John Gomery in a federal investigation into a sponsorship program that found Chretien responsible...
