Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma was formally indicted by a Durban magistrate court Saturday on corruption charges stemming from his relationship with his financial advisor Schabir Shaik who was sentenced in June to...
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Attorneys acting on behalf of over a dozen Hurricane Katrina disaster victims have filed a complaint seeking class action status against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other government agencies. The...
Serbian Defense Minister Zoran Stankovic said Friday on Serbian state television that Theodor Meron, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , had threatened Serbia with "excommunicat from Euro-Atlantic integration" if...
The US Senate may reconsider Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts to contest their detentions as early as next week, according to negotiators on the issue. Sen. Jeff...
Thousands of Paris police officers are enforcing a new ban on public rallies in the French capital "likely to start or fuel disorder" declared under emergency powers granted to local authorities in the wake of widespread rioting...
Colombia's Constitutional Court on Friday voted 7-2 to approve the country's new Electoral Guarantees Law, establishing clear rules to prevent incumbent presidents who run for re-election from exploiting their power for political gain. The announcement follows last...
Two UN legal experts from the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees will travel to North Korea later next week to conduct a legal training session designed to improve understanding of UN treaties...
The Haitian Electoral Council ordered Friday that the names of two Haitian-born US citizens, Dumarsais Simeus and Samir Mourra, be taken off the ballot of authorized candidates for the country's upcoming presidential election . The decision is...
The Federal Court of Canada has announced that it will hear the asylum appeal of US deserter Jeremy Hinzman . In January 2004, days before his scheduled deployment to Iraq, Hinzman deserted the US army and...
Delegates from over 120 member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concluded their tenth annual, five-day Conference of the State Parties at The Hague Friday, and agreed ...
