A Central African Republic court referred former president Ange Felix Patasse and Congo's Vice-President Jean Pierre Bemba to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Friday on war crimes charges stemming from...
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Some of US television's most prominent networks and their affiliates filed notices of appeal in federal district courts across the nation late Thursday and early Friday in response to a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website; JURIST news...
Documents showing Saddam Hussein's role in Iraq's 1987-1989 Anfal campaign against the Kurds are ready to be presented to the Iraqi High Criminal Court , according to Jaafar Al Moussawi, the chief prosecutor...
French union and student leaders Saturday rejected as "unacceptable" a compromise offered by President Jacques Chirac on the First Employment Contract (CPE) , insisting they would continue public...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in a news conference Saturday with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw at the end of a UK visit. In response...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Friday that the Swedish government has accepted its invitation to conduct an audit of the Scheveningen detention unit outside of...
Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee sparred Friday at a hearing on a resolution put forward by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) to censure President Bush for...
Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Chief Prosecutor Desmond de Silva told the Associated Press in an interview Friday that Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor is being closely guarded by UN peacekeepers from...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Friday, March 31 on a resolution introduced by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) censuring President Bush for allegedly breaking the law with his...
A judge in Mississippi Friday issued the first federal ruling on insurance litigation related to the Hurricane Katrina disaster , denying a request from Allstate Insurance Co. to dismiss a case brought by homeowners claiming...
