A French court Friday ordered former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ridouane Khalid jailed, and former Gitmo detainee Khaled ben Mustafa, who was already in custody, to remain behind bars. Both men were detained at the US military prison since 2002 until their transfer to France earlier this month . Mustafa was taken into custody by France's [...]

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The New York Court of Appeals , the state's highest court, ruled Thursday that the New York City Fire Department must release portions of audiotapes and transcripts from 911 calls related to the 2001 terrorist attacks. Specifically, it held that the Fire Department must release the operator's side of the conversations, but due to privacy [...]

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US District Judge James Whittemore has denied a second emergency request from Terri Schiavo's parents to reconnect the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube. Whittemore denied a first request on Tuesday , but after that was unsuccessfully appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court lawyers for the Schindlers filed an amended complaint on new legal [...]

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Letter from the Secretary-General to the President of the General Assembly, United Nations, March 24, 2005 . Excerpt: In particular, the revelations in 2004 of sexual exploitation and abuse by a significant number of United Nations peacekeeping personnel in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have done great harm to the name of peacekeeping. Such [...]

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