Iraqi judge assassinated in Mosul News
Iraqi judge assassinated in Mosul

[JURIST] Judge Salem Mahmud Haj Ali was shot to death on Thursday in Mosul along with his driver. He was in charge of a court division in the northern Iraqi city, and is the third judge to be killed [Reuters report] in Mosul since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Nationwide, more than a dozen Iraqi judges have been reported killed [CBC report] since the end of 2003; the most notable assassination was in March, when an investigatory judge on the Iraqi Special Tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein and members of his regime was gunned down together with his son [JURIST report], a lawyer also working for the Tribunal. AFP has more.

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South Africa becomes first country on continent to legalize same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriages became legal in South Africa on November 30, 2006 as the country's Civil Union Act, 2006 went into effect, making South Africa the only country on the African continent to legalize same-sex marriage. Read the Civil Union Act, 2006.