The Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus is scheduled to begin on May 11 in Tripoli, Bulgarias foreign ministry announced Saturday....
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A presidential doctor in Indonesia Saturday declared former dictator General Suharto still unfit to stand trial, as he suffers from permanent brain damage and cannot have a logical conversation. Recently renewed efforts to have...
Iraq President Jalal Talabani formally designated hardline Shiite politician Jawad al-Maliki to form a new government Saturday, giving him 30 days to present his Cabinet to Parliament for approval. Shiites nominated al-Maliki on Friday after...
An Italian appeals court on Saturday certified the final Senate votes in Italy’s disputed April 9-10 election , confirming a narrow two-seat majority for Romano Prodi in the upper house ...
A Texas state jury on Friday found Merck liable for the death of a 71-year-old man who died from a heart attack within a month of taking Merck's painkiller Vioxx [Merck Vioxx Information Center website; JURIST news...
Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue has signed into law two new bills that may incite court battles over separation of church and state. On Thursday Perdue authorized government-sanctioned elective classes on the Bible in public schools and signed...
Former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been hospitalized in Russia after being stabbed in the face by another prisoner while he slept, Khodorkovsky's lawyer Yury Schmidt said Saturday. The injury to Khodorkovsky's...
The Spanish Supreme Court has overturned the convictions of three men found guilty last year of collaborating with or belonging to al Qaeda in connection with the Sept. 11 terror attacks [JURIST news...
Belarus opposition politician and former foreign economic relations minister Mikhail Marinich was released from prison Friday, after having served nearly two years of a two and a half year sentence. Arrested in April 2004...
Eduard Rebgun, who was appointed by a Moscow court hearing a bankruptcy case for crippled Russian oil company Yukos to manage the company, petitioned a federal court in New York City under Chapter 15...
