Egyptian officials have said that 143 Sudanese refugees, detained by Cairo police after a three-month sit-in protest was forcibly broke up, will be released. As many 600 other Sudanese refugees, some of whom hail from the war torn region...
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The new chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial is a member of the banned Baath party and should be replaced, Ali Faisal, executive manager of Iraq's Debaathification Commission , said Wednesday. According...
Five hundred Bosnian police officers launched an ultimately unsuccessful operation on Wednesday near the town of Han Pijesak in an failed attempt to find and arrest either Radovan Karadzic or Ratko Mladic , both of whom...
Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has said legislation offering amnesty to those involved in a May 2000 racially-motivated coup will be delayed. The Reconciliation, Tolerance, and Immunity Bill has prompted widespread controversy since...
Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Supreme Court of the United States, January 18, 2006 [remanding a US First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling which had struck down New Hampshire's parental notification law for teenage abortions because it...
The military court-martial of Army Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr. continued Tuesday with arguments from Welshofer's lawyer that interrogation methods used by the army officer were approved by his commander and were not the cause of the death...
Respect for human rights in Asia has been on a serious decline over the past year, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch . HRW says that the governments of some Asian countries, including Nepal,...
A federal district judge on Tuesday approved the settlement of a lawsuit and authorized the city of New Orleans to continue demolition of homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina , so long as homeowners are given advance notice....
Russia is considering a request by former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic that he travel to that country for medical treatment, the Russian foreign ministry announced Wednesday. In December, Milosevic asked the judges...
France, Britain and Germany circulated a draft resolution on Iran among key members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday calling for a referral to the UN Security Council. The resolution, if accepted by the...
