According to Iranian doctor Shahram Azam, Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi was tortured and raped during her detention by Iranian authorities before her death in July 2003. The claims by Dr. Azam contradict the...
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The World Bank has unanimously approved the nomination of US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz as the next president of the 184-nation development bank. Wolfowitz was seen as a controversial choice because of...
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Mark Lagon has said the United States will seek international censure of Cuba's human rights record by presenting a resolution at the annual meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights ....
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Thursday called on ousted Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev to resign his post to ensure stability in the Central Asian country. Akayev has given conflicting messages...
In Thursday's environmental law news, Australian state and territory leaders have agreed to establish their own carbon-trading system which would set a cap on the total volume of greenhouse gases an industry can emit. They would then divide the cap...
Leading Thursday's corporations and securities law news, Canada has retaliated against several US goods by levying a 15% surtax on cigarettes, oysters, and live swine. The action is a response to the Byrd Amendment which allows American companies...
Rwanda's main group of Hutu rebels denounced the 1994 genocide of Tutsis for the first time Thursday and announced they were ending their war against the Rwanda government. Ignace Murwanashyaka, president...
A family spokesman says that severely brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo has died.10:02 AM ET - Terri Schiavo's death comes nearly 14 days after removal of her feeding tube. Her death has been confirmed by George Felos, attorney for...
A presidential commission on Thursday said US intelligence agencies know "disturbingly little" about threats posed by the nation's most dangerous adversaries, and the commission recommended more than 70 changes that President Bush can make to improve intelligence. The WMD...
An appeals court in Afghanistan has reduced the sentences of three US citizens who had been convicted of torturing Afghans and running a private jail in Kabul. The three men, Jonathan Idema , Brent Bennett and Edward Caraballo,...
