Australian prosecutors on Monday accused a Pakistani-born Australian immigrant of planning to bomb one of two targets in Sydney in one of the first cases to be tried under the country's new post 9/11 anti-terrorism laws . Faheem Khalid Lodhi, who immigrated to Australia in 1996, has pleaded not guilty to four charges and is [...]

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Leading Monday's international brief, the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal warned the Nepal government again that international standards governing police actions during times of civil unrest must be observed as part of Nepal's international legal obligations. The statement warned that the use of live rounds and targeted rubber bullets [...]

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JURIST Special Guest Columnist Curtis Doebbler, an American member of Saddam Hussein's legal defense team and a professor of law at An-Najah National University on the Palestinian West Bank, says that Hussein's trial is unfair and orchestrated by the United States, and that the rule of law has been irreparably damaged as a result… The [...]

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Software giant Microsoft opened day one of an expected five-day appeals hearing before the European Union's Court of First Instance by claiming that it should be allowed to both protect its intellectual property and enhance its programs. In March 2004, the European Commission concluded a five year investigation , determining that Microsoft had failed to [...]

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