France said Thursday that it will delay a UN Security Council vote on its proposed resolution that would ensure that any Darfur war crimes trials are held at the International Criminal Court . France drafted its resolution to counter the US position in favor of establishing an ad-hoc tribunal operating from Tanzania. The delay puts [...]

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Chile's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet cannot be prosecuted over the killing of his predecessor as Chile's army chief, General Carlos Prats . The ruling reverses a lower court ruling that had stripped Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution in the 1974 car bombing assassination of Prats. The Supreme Court reversed the [...]

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ABC WFTS-TV in Tampa is reporting that the Florida Department of Children and Families may have lost an opportunity – perhaps its only opportunity – to take Terri Schiavo into protective custody and restore her feeding tube contrary to a court order. Early Thursday morning around 8 AM the Department appealed Judge George Greer's injunction [...]

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The Austrian Justice Ministry has dropped its case against a former Nazi psychiatrist accused of killing children at a Vienna clinic after he was ruled unfit for trial. The government said Wednesday that Heinrich Gross, 89, suffers from dementia and could not stand trial. Gross worked at a children's clinic in Austria where 789 children [...]

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A French appeals court on Thursday affirmed a 2002 conviction of investor George Soros for insider trading, including a $2.9 million penalty. The court ruled that Soros' 1988 purchase of French bank Societe Generale SA stock with knowledge that the bank might be the object of a takeover bid broke insider trading laws. Soros has [...]

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