Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday said that the country's constitution should be amended to allow the country to increase its military for national security purposes. Koizumi said that the country could not defend itself without an armed military force trained for war. Japan currently only maintains a 240,000-strong Self-Defense Force because Article 9 [...]

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US Lieutenant-General Martin Dempsey said Wednesday that he thought Iraqi commanders were responsible for recent cases of detainee torture by Iraqi security forces. Dempsey, who oversees the US program to train security forces in Iraq , said he believed the recent cases of abuse were caused by a lack of leadership, rather than by individual [...]

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US District Judge Inge P. Johnson of the Northern District of Alabama on Wednesday dismissed fraud charges against former HealthSouth Corp. CEO, Richard Scrushy because the charges were not specific. Johnson will allow prosecutors fifteen days to amend and refile the fraud counts, which have already been filed three times by the US Securities and [...]

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US District Judge James R. Spencer of the Eastern District of Virginia Wednesday rejected the disputed settlement pact between the maker of the Blackberry communications device, Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) , and the patent owner of the technology behind the device, NTP, Inc. The $450 million settlement, which the companies agreed to in March, [...]

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