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Thailand PM sues leading critic for defamation

July 24, 2006 01:15:00 PM

Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sued anti-government activist Sondhi Limthongkul and 11 others for defamation and $26 million in damages, according to Thaksin's lawyer Monday. Thaksin sued Sondhi and the state-run Communications Authority of...

July 24, 2006 08:22:00 AM

The Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad on Monday, though the former Iraqi leader was not in court due to his weekend hospitalization after collapsing in jail on the sixteenth day...

July 23, 2006 10:28:00 AM

Saddam Hussein has been hospitalized and is being fed through a tube after a hunger strike now into its third week rendered his health "unstable," according to the chief prosecutor for the Iraqi court currently trying...

July 22, 2006 11:13:00 AM

A spokesman for Mexican President Vicente Fox said Friday that citizens should show respect for the law as the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary continues to evaluate the results of...

July 21, 2006 01:04:00 PM

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa has ratified a controversial protest law that some rights groups suggest could be inconsistent with common international rights standards. The Amendments to Law 18/1973 criminalizes unauthorized protests, prohibits foreign nationals from...

July 21, 2006 10:45:00 AM

The top legal advisor to the US Secretary of State assured the UK on Friday that the three British bankers who were extradited to the US in connection with the Enron fraud scandal will receive a...

July 21, 2006 10:23:00 AM

Doctors have warned Saddam Hussein that his now two-week-long hunger strike could have adverse health effects, according to a US military spokesman Thursday. Hussein drinks coffee and fortified water, but has refused to eat ...

July 20, 2006 02:53:00 PM

A lawyer for Tariq Aziz , former deputy prime minister and foreign minister for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has filed a habeas corpus petition with the US Supreme Court , seeking...

July 19, 2006 08:52:00 AM

Kyrgyz security forces have arrested six men who reportedly confessed to organizing last year's unrest in Uzbekistan that resulted in the massacre of unarmed Uzbek civilians by government troops in Andijan....

July 17, 2006 10:23:00 AM

Saddam Hussein and three co-defendants have entered their tenth day of a hunger strike protesting the lack of security for defense lawyers in their trial, US military spokesman Lt. Col. Keir-Kevin Curry said Monday....

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