Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told AP Wednesday that he expects to give up his position as army chief by the end of the month. Opposition groups had challenged Musharraf's eligibility to run for re-election as president while he still served as head of the army. The Supreme Court of Pakistan was on the brink of [...]
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Iranian prosecutors issued court summonses Tuesday for five Argentinians accused of falsely implicating an Iranian group with masterminding the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish Community Center . The five accused – former Interior Minister Carlos Corach, president of the bombed community center Ruben Beraja, judge Juan Jose Galeano, and prosecutors Eamon Mullen and [...]
New US Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey was installed during a ceremony at the Justice Department Wednesday in front of hundreds of officials and DOJ lawyers. Although officially sworn-in last Friday, Mukasey again took the oath of office in an installation ceremony led by US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Addressing DOJ employees for [...]
Kenneth S. Kagan : "In February, 2007, 1LT Ehren Watada was tried by a court-martial for his refusal to deploy to Iraq, and for statements he made on four separate occasions in various media explaining his rationale for his intention to refuse to deploy (and on one occasion, explaining, after the fact, why he did [...]
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that the educational separation of Roma children in the Czech Republic violates principles of human rights. By a vote of 13-4, the court held that the separation amounts to racial discrimination in violation of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights , finding that the [...]
The US Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility has reopened an investigation into the administration's domestic surveillance program after recently being granted the necessary security clearances previously denied to DOJ investigators, OPR chief H. Marshall Jarrett said in a Tuesday letter to US Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) . The internal investigation into the role [...]
The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the language of an anti-abortion group's proposed ballot initiative that would amend the Colorado constitution to define a fertilized egg as a "person" entitled to "inalienable rights, equality of justice, and due process of law" under the state constitution. The group, Colorado for Equal Rights for Human Life, [...]
An FBI investigation has concluded that private security personnel in Iraq shot and killed 14 Iraqi civilians without justification during a September 16 incident in Baghdad, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The investigators found that many as five Blackwater USA guards fired on civilians during the shootings, which killed 17 Iraqi civilians and prompted [...]
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has admitted that it has several recorded interrogations of suspected "enemy combatants," contrary to previous assertions. According to a letter released Tuesday, the agency mistakenly denied in court declarations that it possessed one audio and two video tapes during the trial of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui . Moussaoui [...]
Canada's ruling Conservative Party government Tuesday reintroduced two Senate reform bills that would abolish government-appointed senators and limit the number of terms a senator could serve. The first bill would allow each province to vote to fill vacancies in the Senate. The federal prime minister would then rely on the results to appoint the preferred [...]
