Australian state and territory attorneys general demanded action Tuesday in the case of David Hicks , an Australian detainee held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Upset that the US has failed to charge Hicks...
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Australian AGs demand return of Hicks
ICTY appeals chamber reduces sentence of former Bosnian Serb mayor
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Thai cabinet approves lifting martial law in Bangkok, 40 other provinces
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UN rights group urges Iraq not to execute Saddam after ‘flawed’ trial
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Russia prosecutors convicted of taking bribes
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State judge allows Iraq wrongful death suit to proceed against US security contractor
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Hariri tribunal proposal goes to Lebanon president for approval
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Australia oil-for-food report [Australia AG]
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High court refuses to block probe access to NYT reporters’ phone records
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Congo high court dismisses presidential election challenge
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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Tuesday reduced the sentence of local Bosnian Serb politician Blagoje Simic from 17 to 15 years, after reversing one of his...
The Thai cabinet Tuesday approved a measure to lift martial law in 41 of the country's 76 provinces, including Bangkok, despite a recommendation by coup leader and Army Commander-in-Chief General Sonthi Boonyaratglin Monday to retain martial law...
A group of United Nations human rights experts on Tuesday urged the Iraqi government to refrain from carrying out the death sentence imposed on Saddam Hussein earlier this month for crimes against humanity [charging...
Two Russian prosecutors were convicted Monday of accepting a $10,000 bribe from a construction company in the country's latest example of corruption in the court and police systems. Sergei Kocherov and Ruslan Fedosenko of the district prosecutor's office in...
A North Carolina state court judge Monday ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the families of four US contractors killed in Iraq against Blackwater Security Consulting could move forward after being stayed for nearly two...
The Lebanese cabinet on Monday sent a draft measure concerning the creation of a UN-supported international tribunal to try suspects accused of assassinating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to Lebanese President Emile Lahoud [official...
Report of the Inquiry into certain Australian companies in relation to the UN oil-for-food program, Australian Government Attorney, November 27, 2006 [Cole Commission report recommending that criminal charges be brought against 12 business executives for paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's...
The US Supreme Court announced in a one line order Monday that it would not grant a temporary stay in a case involving federal investigators' access to the phone records of two New York Times...
The Supreme Court of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinshasa Monday rejected a legal challenge by Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to the official results of last month's...
