A penal court in the Aden province of Yemen on Sunday sentenced a group of 10 Somali pirates to five years in prison. The men were convicted on charges of committing acts of piracy against Yemeni fishing boats. Three other individuals were also tried but were acquitted for lack of evidence. The 13 individuals were [...]
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The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday convicted former Rwanda businessman Gaspard Kanyarukiga on charges of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity. Kanyarukiga was indicted in 2001 for his alleged involvement with the 1994 Rwandan genocide and faced charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and extermination as [...]
The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office of Ankara on Saturday lifted a nearly three-year ban on YouTube after disputed videos were removed from the site’s content. A German-based international licensing service owned by a Turkish citizen reportedly bought the rights to the videos that allegedly insulted Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , and removed them on [...]
A panel of seven senior US military officers on Sunday sentenced Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to 40 years in prison, but Khadr will serve no more than eight years under the terms of a guilty plea agreement . Khadr pleaded guilty last week to all five charges against him, including murder, attempted murder, [...]
The Somali parliament on Sunday voted 297-92 to approve new Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, after several delays due to a constitutional dispute over the confirmation procedure. Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed Sheikh Mahmud had argued that due to the silence of the Somali Transitional Federal Charter on confirmation procedures, Somalia’s 1960 Constitution must control, [...]
Bahrain released election results Sunday in its second round of parliamentary elections, revealing that pro-government Sunni parties had maintained a majority, preventing opposition groups from beginning a corruption investigation of the ruling family. Opposition Shi’ite parties represent the majority of Bahrain’s population and claim they experience discrimination in government jobs and housing and have said [...]
Niger held a referendum Sunday on whether to adopt a new constitution following February’s coup , in which a military government replaced that of then-president Mamadou Tandja . If approved, the constitution would limit the powers of the president, confining officeholders to two terms and require presidential candidates to be between the ages of 35 [...]
Apple filed two lawsuits Friday against rival smartphone maker Motorola alleging that several of Motorola’s products infringe six patents owned by Apple. The lawsuits, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin claim that the products violate federal law because they utilize touch-screen technologies that have been patented by Apple. Apple [...]
The US District Court for the District of Hawaii on Friday rejected a challenge to one of the state’s campaign finance laws. In the case of Yamada et. al v. Kuramoto et. al., Judge Michael Seabright rejected challenges to two Hawaiian states laws according to which political action committees must disclose the names of contributors [...]
A spokesperson for the European Commission on Friday said that the Vatican will implement the European Commission’s laws against money laundering and financial fraud by the end of the year. According to Amadeu Altafaj, spokesman for EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn , EU and Vatican officials discussed a draft law consistent with the EU [...]
