A Pakistan military court sentenced four men to death and two others to life imprisonment on Tuesday for their roles in an attempted assassination of President Pervez Musharraf in 2003. A statement...
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The US Trustee Program , a division of the US Department of Justice, announced Tuesday that for people living in Louisiana and southern Mississippi it would waive a new requirement that those filing for bankruptcy undergo credit counseling....
The Belgian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Rwanda has agreed to hand over Guy Theunis, a Belgian Catholic priest accused of helping incite the 1994 Rwandan genocide , to the Belgian government. Last...
The South Korean Unification Ministry on Tuesday announced plans to repatriate up to 28 North Korean prisoners that have remained detained in the south following the Korean War . The "long-term prisoners" are mostly former spies...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke urged the UN on Tuesday to support Britain's efforts to deport suspected militants to countries believed to engage in torture. Clarke's made the call in response to statements UN Special...
President Bush defended his latest pick for the US Supreme Court on Tuesday after some leading conservatives questioned the judicial philosophy of White House counsel Harriet Miers . Bush told reporters that Miers...
Former head of Russia oil giant Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced Tuesday that he would file a second appeal of his conviction on fraud and tax evasion charges. Last month, a Moscow appeals...
The Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) urged Indonesia on Tuesday to study the cases of about 100 prisoners who may have been overlooked in a sweeping grant of amnesty to more than 2,000 members of the Free Aceh...
The UN-affiliated Special Court for Sierra Leone wrapped up a pledging conference by receiving $10 million from UN member states, but fell more than halfway short of the tribunal's $25 million...
Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti announced Monday that six hospitals, including the state's major public hospital, Charity Hospital, and thirteen nursing homes are under investigation to determine whether they mishandled evacuations, abandoned, or euthanized patients...
