The US Supreme Court ruled in three cases Monday. In Shepard v. US , the court in a 5-3 opinion by Justice Souter held that in making sentencing determinations, judges are confined to information...
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French newspaper Le Monde reported Monday that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague is about to indict Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and issue...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called an emergency, closed-door session of the UN Security Council for Monday to discuss the deteriorating situation in the Darfur region of Sudan, as well as the proposed deployment of over 10,000...
Members of Kuwait's parliament Monday agreed to speed up consideration of a government-proposed law that would give Kuwaiti women the right to vote. No specific date for debate was set, however....
Tsunami Victims Group v. Accor North America et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, March 4, 2005 [filed by 60 European survivors and relatives of victims of the December 26 South Asia tsunami against...
Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Salih said Sunday that the transitional national assembly chosen in the January 30 elections and responsible for drafting a permanent constituton for Iraq replacing the current Transitional Administrative Law...
More recently-declassified notes of some Guantanamo detainees' conversations with their defense attorneys include allegations that US personnel at the camp repeatedly mocked Islam, made disparaging remarks, and took religiously-abusive actions such as that of a prison barber in cutting...
An Israeli cabinet minister has called for the Palestinian Authority to reverse a decision publicized Thursday to reintroduce capital punishment and to immediately stay the scheduled execution of accused collaborators with Israel [PCHR news release on two...
Some 60 European survivors and relatives of victims of the December 26 South Asia tsunami led by controversial personal injury lawyer Edward Fagan formally filed suit in New York Friday against the...
Italian prosecutors have questioned Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who was wounded late Friday by US forces after she was released by her kidnappers at the end of a month-long hostage ordeal. An Italian security agent was killed...
