Lawyers for several Chinese detainees still held at Guantanamo Bay have filed a lawsuit in US federal court seeking their release due to the flawed process by which they were determined to be enemy combatants. The group of seven ethnic Uighurs were deemed enemy combatants by Guantanamo's Combatant Status Review Tribunals , while five other [...]

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Finland's parliament voted to ratify the proposed European Constitution Tuesday, taking steps toward becoming the 16th country to ratify the charter as Finland's six-month presidency of the European Union comes to a close. Parliament members voted 125-39 to ratify the EU constitution, with four MPs abstaining. Finnish President Tarja Halonen must now also approve ratification. [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Kamehameha Schools , a private school that accepts no federal funding, can utilize an admissions policy that gives priority to Native Hawaiian students before admitting non-Native Hawaiians. The court's majority reasoned that "Because the Schools are a wholly private K-12 educational establishment, [...]

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Italian prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to issue indictments for 26 US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents and five officials from the Italian Military Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) , including former SISMI chief Nicola Pollari, on kidnapping charges for allegedly orchestrating the extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr . Nasr, [...]

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Flavio Sosa , a leader of the popular uprising in the Mexican state of Oaxaca , was arrested late Monday after arriving in Mexico City for negotiations with the federal government. Sosa, a prominent figure in the People's Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) , was jailed in a maximum-security facility on five charges, including kidnapping and [...]

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