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The trial of the prime minister of Spain's semi-autonomous Basque region began Thursday on charges of having met with the illegal Batasuna party which is regarded as the political wing of the militant separatist group ETA.
Juan Jose Ibarretxe was the first Basque prime minister to be tried on criminal charges.
Ibarretxe arrived in...
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A Spanish court has ordered a school to pay 30,000 euros (40,500 dollars) in damages to the family of a pupil who was bullied by his fellows, the highest such damages ever awarded in Spain, the victim's father and lawyers said Wednesday.
Part of the evidence was based on a video showing pupils mocking and hitting their 10-year-old...
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A Russian man described as a major international arms dealer told a Thai court Monday that he was a harmless businessman who posed no threat to anyone.
The court heard testimony that Viktor Bout, the model for Nicolas Cage's arms dealer in the 2005 film Lord of War, was caught in a sting in Thailand set up by US undercover agents...
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Croatia's efforts to deal with corruption in prisons suffered a hard blow Wednesday after a local daily published a price list of "services" provided in jails.
Croatian daily Slobodna Dalmacija reported, quoting "prison sources" that for a certain price, prisoners in Croatian jails can move to a minimal security...
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An Afghan-born youth declined to testify Tuesday at his trial for the murder of his own sister in Germany.
The May 15 stabbing death of Morsal O, 16, in Hamburg attracted enormous attention at a time when Germans were concerned at a rash of "honour killings" by immigrants from archaic central Asian societies.
The term...
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US pop queen Madonna was probably still asleep in Philadelphia early Friday after entertaining fans with her raunchy Sticky & Sweet tour the night before when a district judge in London granted the decree confirming that her eight-year marriage with Guy Ritchie was over.
The sober proceedings, listed as Ciccione M L v Ritchie G S...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie ended their eight-year marriage in a low-key "quickie" divorce in London Friday following a private settlement.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the High Court's family division. It lasted just a few minutes and was heard...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie were granted a "quickie" divorce after nearly eight years of marriage at the High Court in London Friday.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the court's family division which lasted just a few minutes.
High-profile...
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Spanish judicial experts expect no major new investigations into alleged human rights abuses during the 1936-39 civil war and General Francisco Franco's ensuing 36-year dictatorship, the daily El Pais said Thursday.
High-profile judge Baltasar Garzon's decision to drop the first such inquiry on Tuesday was described as a big blow by...
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A Russian court ruled Wednesday to bar the media and public from the trial of three men charged with the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
The judge at the Moscow's Military Court reversed his decision to make the trial open to the public after the jury refused to hear the case in front of the press.
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A Russian military court will allow public and media access to the trial of three men charged over the murder investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, it ruled in a crucial first hearing Monday.
Police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and two Chechen brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, stand accused of plotting the murder of...
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The alleged kingpin of the main Russian organized-crime family in Germany's Bavaria state went on trial Friday.
Lawyers for the alleged mobsters showered the court with motions to stop the trial. Security at the Munich courthouse was strict.
The defendant, 39, was indicted with running a criminal organization.
Two alleged mafia...
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An Australian man of German extraction wanted in Germany on charges of denying the mass killing of Jews in the Holocaust has been freed on bail by a court in London following extradition proceedings.
Westminster Magistrate's Court confirmed Thursday that a judge had thrown out an extradition bid from Germany for 64-year-old Gerald...
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Anti-globalization demonstrators invaded the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Monday, chanting, waving banners and scattering leaflets inside Germany's principal financial marketplace.
"We are criticizing the dominance of financial markets," said Stephan Schilling, a member of the Attac Network coordinating circle, in Frankfurt...
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Retail shops across Greece closed down for several hours on Wednesday to protest the conservative government's reform policies which they say will force their businesses to go bankrupt.
From the Greek capital Athens and the northern port city of Thessaloniki to hundreds of islands in the Aegean, small and medium clothing and food...
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It is the job of David Smith to keep on top of his box of index cards marked "serious buyers."
But as tight loans and tumbling prices keep a stranglehold on Britain's once buoyant property market, hardly any of his clients bother to ring back.
Estate agents like Smith are nostalgic about the days of the property boom when...
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A US judge has ordered aircraft maker Boeing to hand over all available technical information on the MD-82 jetliner that crashed in Madrid on August 20, killing 154 people, Spanish press reports said Tuesday.
A US law firm has filed a complaint against Boeing and its subsidiary McDonnell Douglas in the name of 18 families that lost...
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As Germany sought to calm the public with a "decisive" pledge about savings property lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE) came under pressure Monday from other banks and Berlin to sack its chief executive after HRE needed a vast bail-out.
Questions about the German government assurance of an estimated 1 trillion euros (1.4 trillion...
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Turkish internet users have been blocked via a court order from accessing the site of prominent British biologist Richard Dawkins after complaints from lawyers for Islamic creationist author Adnan Oktar, the website of Turkish television station NTV reported on Wednesday.
A court in Istanbul ordered that Turk Telekom block access to...
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The Dutch government cannot be held responsible for the failure of Dutch United Nations troops to protect the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre committed by Bosnian Serb forces, a court ruled in The Hague Wednesday.
The Mothers of Srebrenica, relatives of the 8,000 men and boys killed while the enclave was under the formal...
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Lawyers of a Serb wanted by United States for a near-fatal beating of a fellow student baulked at a plea offer by US prosecutors, describing it as "arrogance," the Vecernje Novosti daily said Wednesday.
Miladin Kovacevic, 21, a student and basketball player, was offered to enter a guilty plea and receive a 12-year sentence...
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Serbian authorities Tuesday said a laptop was found which may have belonged to Radovan Karadzic, a former Bosnian Serb leader on a genocide trial at the United Nations tribunal.
Karadzic was arrested in late July in Belgrade and extradited to the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
He...
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A British computer hacker accused of breaking
into top secret US defence and aerospace systems Wednesday lost his
appeal against extradition to the US where he could face a life
sentence if convicted of sabotaging vital defence systems.
Gary McKinnon, a 42-year-old computer and UFO enthusiast from Glasgow,
Scotland, has been...
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 Britain's top police chiefs warned against Princess Diana going on a
Mediterranean yachting holiday with Harrod's heir Dodi al-Fayed which
ended with both being killed in a car crash in Paris at the end of
August 1997, the inquest into their deaths was told in London Tuesday.
Evidence presented to the inquest showed that Paul...
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 A Paris court will issue a decision Friday on a demand by the ex-wife
of President Nicolas Sarkozy to stop publication of a book in which she
is quoted as calling him a philanderer, stingy and unworthy of being
president, French radio reported Thursday.
The book, titled simply Cecilia, was written by journalist Anna
Biton, who...
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 Italian Transport Minister Alessandro Bianchi summoned Wednesday unions
representing striking truck drivers for talks as the stoppage continued
despite a government order declaring it unlawful.
Discussions between Bianchi and union representatives who have
vowed to continue the strike through Friday was scheduled for 1330 GMT
in...
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Britain's "back from the dead" canoeist John Darwin and his wife, now
both in custody for faking his death for suspected insurance fraud, are
longing to be reunited for their upcoming wedding anniversary, their
lawyers said Tuesday.
However, their wish looked far from being fulfilled as Anne Darwin,
55, was "tearful...
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In a further twist Tuesday to the sex murder of a British woman in
Perugia, Italy, Italian authorities released an initial suspect in the
case just hours after another man allegedly linked to the killing was
arrested in Germany.
Lumumba "Patrick" Diya, 38, who was arrested on November 6, left a
Perugia prison on Tuesday...
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An Italian magistrate on Friday remanded in custody a US student, her
Italian boyfriend and a Congolese nightclub owner in connection with
the murder of a British student, news reports said.
The semi-naked body of Meredith Kercher, 21, was found on November
1 with a stab wound in the neck inside a flat she shared with...
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 Liberia’s former leader Charles G Taylor appeared for the first time in front of The Hague court on Tuesday, after two boycotts.Taylor refused to attend the first two sessions and face charges of war crimes because he was afraid of an inequitable trial and his lawyers need more time to prepare the defence.The former president is accused...
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 Former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor defied once more the International Criminal Court and failed to appear in front of it on Monday.Taylor is accused of no more than 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity following his actions during the Sierra Leone civil war between 1991-2002, when he allegedly aided...
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Strasbourg was the meeting place for approximately 15,000 Kurds, as they protested against the jailing of the former leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan. Thousands of Kurds gathered in the French city of Strasbourg to support the former PKK leader and ask for a fair medical examination. To...
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A culture of bribery and impunity flourished at German corporate giant Siemens AG over the past decade despite repeated warnings from outside and inside the firm, according to US court documents.
The details were released Monday as Siemens pleaded guilty in US District Court in Washington to a massive global corruption scandal...
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Four Marines were arrested after they had told investigators they were the ones who robbed and killed a fellow Marine and his wife last month. The four broke into the couple’s home, sexually assaulted the woman and searched for valuable objects. They were charged on Wednesday with the execution-style slayings of Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24,...
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Rev. Al Sharpton joined Michael Mineo’s side in the scandal made public this week. Five police officers attacked Mineo and sodomized him with a walkie-talkie inside a subway station in Brooklyn. Still, the police couldn’t do anything because the officers deny the fact and some witnesses said that they had heard Mineo yelling for help,...
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 China Arnold, 28, killed her baby girl of only a month by burning her to death inside a microwave oven. The jury failed to reach a consensus when giving her the death penalty so they finally decided to sentence her to life in prison without parole. The prosecutors stated that the woman had voluntarily put the little baby in the...
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 A judge moved a hearing for a condemned inmate because the former hearing was scheduled to be long after his execution. On Thursday, the judge stated that the lawyers of the inmate have to fight about the sentence while he is still alive. The inmate’s lawyers say that the execution sentence was wrong because the judge was having an...
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Michelle Obama stole the limelight and apparent affection of Democratic delegates Monday night, describing husband Barack Obama as a persistent suitor in their courting days who would carry the same kind of determination into the White House.
The couple provided a rare and at times humourous glimpse into their private lives in one of...
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On Tuesday morning, John “Junior” Gotti was arrested by the FBI on federal conspiracy charges, linking him to the murder of three men in New York, and possessing and trafficking cocaine, Bloomberg reported. 44-year-old Mr. Gotti, son of late Gambino crime family boss John J. Gotti, was ordered seized by a magistrate judge in Manhattan...
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A conservative US senator on Tuesday alleged that Chinese authorities plan to spy on foreign guests staying in hotels during the Olympics next month in Beijing.
Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican from Kansas, said that lawyers representing international hotel chains have provided his office with documents ordering hotels to install...
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 On Sunday morning, a man opened fire in a church in Knoxville, Tennessee, killing 2 persons and injuring 7 others, Reuters reported. The man entered the church at 10.18 a.m. and started shooting while 25 children were performing the play “Annie.” In line with WATE-TV, none of the kids got hurt. They ran away and three of them were found...
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Former US government spokesman and Fox News
commentator Tony Snow has died at the age 53 from colon cancer, US
media reported Saturday. Snow served as Bush's third press secretary, from April 2006 to September 2007 following Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.
Used to earning more as a television commentator Snow took a pay cut...
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Kent Jermaine Jackson was executed by lethal
injection on Thursday at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt,
Virginia. Jackson, 26, was convicted for the brutal killing of an elderly widow
who lived in his apartment building.
He died at 9:18 p.m. in Greensville Correctional
Center, after eight years in prison. Both...
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Neil Entwistle, 29, was found guilty of the murder of his
wife and 9-month-old daughter on Wednesday.
Although he had been telling the same story for more than 2
years, the jury decided that his defense was not sufficiently strong to protect
him from being convicted.
According to Entwistle’s narration of the facts...
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Former civil rights lawyer Revius Ortique Jr., who became the first black
justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, died Sunday. He was 84.
It appears that Ortique died in Baton
Rouge from complications with a stroke he suffered
June 14, current Justice Kitty Kimball told the Associated Press.
“I think he was one of the finest...
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A military judge at Camp Pendleton dismissed on Tuesday the case against Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, the highest-ranking marine charged in the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
Col. Steven Folsom, the judge, made his ruling in response to a motion from defense attorneys charging that undue influence was exercised on the convening...
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 Virginia Governor Tim Kaine prevented
Monday the execution of a convicted triple murderer for the third time and
ordered the commutation of his death sentence, a day before the scheduled
execution. He said that Percy Levar Walton is so profoundly mentally ill and
impaired that he did not understand that he was about to die.
In...
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The trial of the five terrorists who are believed to be behind the
November 11 attacks has not yet been set to start at Camp Justice.
However, the suspects appeared in front of a war crime tribunal for the first
time on Thursday.
The new courtroom where the suspects will be judged is surrounded by
razor wire fences.
First came...
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The alleged key suspect behind the attacks upon U.S. from 11 September 2001 will stay before the
military tribunal in Guantanamo
Bay.
The man who is considered al-Qaeda’s number three has refused to be
defended by lawyers. He is actually trying to convince the court to sentence
him to death, for he wants to become a martyr in the...
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 The Pentagon says Binayam Mohamed, an
Ethiopian national, is accused of supporting terrorism and conspiracy to commit
terrorist attacks in the United
States. He allegedly planned with al-Qaeda to
use a radioactive “dirty bomb.”
His lawyers say the case is based on
evidence obtained through torture while he was in...
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 Dina Matos McGreevey, the wife of former Gov. Jim McGreevey
tried to convince a judge that she is entitled to alimony, saying she is deeply
in debt and about to lose her $81,000-a-year job at Columbus Hospital
in Newark. She
said that her mortgage, legal bills and a $100,000 loan from a friend have left
her deeply in debt.
The...
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 Dina Matos McGreevey, the wife of former Gov. Jim McGreevey tried to convince a judge that she was entitled to alimony, saying she was deeply in debt and about to lose her $81,000-a-year job at Columbus Hospital in Newark. She said that her mortgage, legal bills and a $100,000 loan from a friend had left her deeply in debt.The two...
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Washington, May 27 – Former Illinois
Governor George Ryan and a co-defendant Larry Warner lost their chance to get
out of prison, by losing a U.S. Supreme Court appeal. The main arguments
brought in front of the justice were based on the fact that their constitutional
rights had been violated when the panel of judges dismissed two...
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The trial of R. Kelly began with three days of explosive
testimony. Facing up 15 years behind bars if convicted, the R&B star is charged
with 14 counts of child pornography.
Prosecutor Shauna Boliker said Kelly “created, staged, produced and starred” in
the infamous video sex tape. Meanwhile, defense...
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 This case is the second US execution since
the Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on death penalty last month. Convicted
murderer Earl Wesley Berry was executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary
at Parchman, state officials said. The man was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m.
local time at Parchman prison, said Tara Booth, spokeswoman...
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 A military judge has postponed the trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, saying the Supreme Court should first rule on the rights of inmates to contest their detention and to see if that ruling affects the detainees’ cases. The Supreme Court is expected to rule by 30 June.Hamdan was to be the first prisoner tried...
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 Five men, accused of conspiring to kill thousands of people
by financing, directing and organizing the 9/11 suicide missions, face death
penalty charges at the US
detention facility at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba. A
Pentagon official has formally approved death penalty charges against them for
allegedly conspiring in the September 11...
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 A US military judge has disqualified the Pentagon’s top legal adviser in the Office of Military Commissions, one of the key figures in Guantanamo war crimes tribunals, The New York Times reported.Navy Capt. Keith Allred ruled that Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann of the Air Force Reserve was too closely allied with the prosecution. He is...
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 The FBI raided the office of U.S. Special Counsel Scott
Bloch in an investigation of whether he obstructed justice by having his computer
files erased, the Associated Press reports.
According to FBI officials, computers and documents were
seized from Scott Bloch’s office during the raid Tuesday morning. They also
mentioned...
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 Emad al-Janabi sues US military contractors, accusing them
of torture, war crimes and civil conspiracy in a complaint filed in federal
court in Los Angeles. The former detainee in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq claims the employees of CACI
International Inc. and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc, two companies which
provided services to the...
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 According to the settlement proposed by officials and accepted by most families involved in the Virginia Tech tragedy, each family will receive $100,000, as well as the chance to meet and discuss with the governor and the university’s officials about the shootings.Each family will also receive medical and counseling expenses, according...
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 “How many other people’s salaries have been frozen for 10
years?” asked Bernard W. Nussbaum, the lawyer of the state’s chief judge,
Judith S. Kaye, while standing on the steps outside State Supreme Court in Manhattan, according to
the New York Times. Bernard W. Nussbaum, Kaye’s lawyer and a former counsel to
the Clinton White House...
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A federal appeals court released Donald Siegelman, former
governor of Alabama
from prison, where he had spent nine months of a seven year sentence. He was
convicted on six corruption counts and one count of obstruction of justice. His
appeal was based on the fact that he was politically prosecuted.
The federal prosecutors have...
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 Several contract workers and employees viewed the passport
files of all three presidential candidates, the State Department said Friday. Officials
are investigating the episodes but they claim the actions were not politically
motivated and the workers were probably guided by “imprudent curiosity.” Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice...
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 The U.S.
capital’s tough gun control law was debated yesterday by lawyers who analyzed
the meaning of the “right to bear arms”, which is guaranteed by the Second
Amendment to the US Constitution. A majority of justices from the Supreme Court
seem to accept an interpretation of the Second Amendment that defends the...
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 New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has made official on Wednesday his intention to retire from the state’s top office after his alleged involvement as a client in a high-priced prostitution ring. The lawyer said that he doesn’t want to allow his "private failings to disrupt the public's work.""I am deeply sorry that I did not...
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 USA Today reporter Toni Locy has been found in contempt of court by U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton in Washington for refusing to disclose her sources in the anthrax attacks of 2001. Specifically, a federal judge late Friday night ordered the fines to coerce Locy to identify sources who named former Army scientist Steven Hatfill as...
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 Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, a nationally renowned forensic
pathologist, who acted as a consultant in numerous high-profile cases, is
set to appear in front of a Pittsburgh federal court.
Wecht faces 41 criminal charges and could spend the rest of
his life behind bars if he proves to be guilty.
Wecht, who resigned as Allegheny County...
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 President George W Bush on Friday rejected a law that would make it
easier for victims of Saddam Hussein's former regime to sue Iraq for
compensation, holding up a massive, overdue spending bill for the US
military.
Bush's veto announcement followed Iraqi government objections that
the provisions, buried in a 2008 defence budget...
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 The two leaders of the US panel that investigated the 2001 terrorist
attacks say that it appeared the CIA had intentionally withheld tapes
of alleged torture of terrorism suspects to impede their work,
according to a story Saturday in the New York Times.
The comments to the newspaper by the two chairmen, Lee Hamilton and
Thomas...
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 The Central Intelligence Agency revealed Friday that in 2005 it
destroyed video tapes of officers subjecting two al- Qaeda terrorist
suspects to harsh interrogation techniques.
CIA chief Michael Hayden told President George W Bush about the
destruction of the tapes Thursday and the White House was assisting the
spy agency in an...
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 Lawyers for prisoners in the war on terrorism appeared before the US
Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking the right for their clients to
challenge their detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the federal court
system.
The cases, Boumediene versus Bush and al-Odah versus the United
States, marked the third time in as many years...
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 It seems incredibly complicated to be an astronaut in love.
The three-cornered NASA love story has reached a new stage: apologies. More specific, Lisa Nowak expressed her regret
about what she has done to her romantic rival, Colleen Shipman. Even more
specific, they were in court, Nowak under charges of attempted kidnapping,...
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 After months of investigations and deliberations a US court sentenced Tuesday former chief of staff Lewis Libby to 30 months in prison for obstruction of justice, perjury and false statements. The former assistant to US Vice President Dick Cheney for national security affairs received beside the heavy chastisement a fine of 250,000...
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 Guantanamo’s youngest prisoner has been cleared of murder and terrorism charges by a military judge that considered the Canadian’s case insoluble by the military commission, officials from the Pentagon reported on Monday. Omar Ahmed Khadr, by his full name, is a Canadian citizen that was detained in Afghanistan on July 27, 2002 by US...
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Around 40 people were taken into custody Wednesday in the latest wave of arrests connected to a shadowy nationalist gang that prosecutors claim was conspiring to overthrow Turkey's moderate Islamic government, Turkish media reported.
Those taken into custody on Wednesday included retired generals, former police officers, academics and...
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Leading international writers, scholars, lawyers and rights advocates on Tuesday urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to free the dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, who is believed to be facing subversion charges for organizing a charter for democratic reform in China.
More than 150 leading US and European-based intellectuals, including...
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Montazer al-Zaidi, the TV reporter who threw his shoes at US President George W Bush on Sunday, has not been tortured and has been well-treated during his detention, one of his lawyers said Thursday.
"Al-Zaidi is in good health and was not tortured during his detention," one of his lawyers told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news...
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The wife of jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia welcomed international support for the couple on Wednesday, as the European Parliament prepared to award its top human rights prize to him in absentia.
"It is not only for us, it is also for all Chinese human rights defenders," Zeng Jinyan told Deutsche Presse-Agentur...
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Chinese civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo is one of the best-known critics of China's communist power apparatus, a battle he has been waging for the past two decades.
Despite all the efforts by the state security organs to intimidate him, for the past two decades the author has over and again spoken out for political reforms,...
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A young female journalist who attempted to cover a protest by a group of Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis victims was sentenced to two years in prison Friday, legal sources confirmed.
Eine Khaing Oo, 21, was arrested on June 10 when she tried to cover a rare protest in front of the head office of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)...
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