An Italian court issued arrest warrants on Monday for six more CIA operatives in connection with the kidnapping of a radical Muslim in 2003 in Milan. Last month the court issued warrants for 13 members of the unit and is considering seeking extradition . The six warrants today were issued for the remaining members of [...]

Ethiopia's National Election Board ordered revotes in 20 of the country's 524 constituencies on Monday, after an investigation of election fraud found evidence of abuse at more than 100 polling stations. Violence and protests erupted after the original election, and only recently has the government ended a ban on election protests . The new votes [...]

Cuba has released nine people imprisoned for taking part in government protests, but still holds 17 people arrested last week as part of a crackdown on dissent. The US has previously objected to oppression of anti-government activists in Cuba. The nine released on Saturday had been picked up by police prior to a scheduled protest [...]

The head of the Iraq electoral commission has said that Iraq will open voter registration on August 1 in preparation for the scheduled October 15 vote on a new Iraqi constitution , and general elections in December. Reports are that the constitution draft will be done on schedule by August 15, despite a recent Sunni [...]

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, facing charges of crimes against humanity, was denied permission late last week to stand trial or serve his sentence in Sweden. Swedish Justice Ministry director Ann Marie Bolin Pennegaard told AFP that the request for Saddam to await trial, stand trial or serve his sentence in Sweden , made by [...]

With a federal appeals court giving the green light earlier this month, the US is looking to quickly restart military tribunals for declared "enemy combatants" being held at Guantanamo . Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said that the trials will resume "as soon as possible", even though other appeals of the general issue to the [...]

Jury selection began today for the competency trial of Daryl Atkins, the plaintiff in the 2002 Supreme Court case Atkins v. Virginia that abolished the death penalty for the severely mentally retarded by a 6-3 decision . Atkins has been convicted of murder and sentenced to death; the issue now is whether Atkins is disabled [...]

Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized on Monday for the shooting last Friday of a Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist , while relatives of the man are considering legal action . Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by police that suspected him of being another bomber. The Metropolitan Police in London also released [...]

Indiana National Guard soldier Corporal Dustin Berg has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi police officer. He is accused of killing Hussein Kamel Hadi Dawood Al-Dubeidi near Baghdad in December 2003 and then shooting himself. Berg, who received a Purple Heart for his injuries, initially said the Iraqi police [...]

Raed Jouhi, head of the Iraqi Special Tribunal , told a Saudi newspaper on Monday that the indictment against Saddam Hussein would be finished within two days, and that the trial would begin in about a month. He also said many of Saddam's former aides, facing prosecutions of their own, were cooperative in the pre-trial [...]