Serbian prosecutors charged 17 former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Friday for war crimes committed during the war in Kosovo . The charges include rape, murder, mutilation, and torture resulting from...
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Serbian officials charge 17 former Kosovo army members with war crimes
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Brazil president signs controversial Amazon land privatization bill
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Senate committee defense budget includes military commission reforms
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Federal bankruptcy judge approves GM financing motion
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Impeached federal judge to resign at end of month
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Honduras president rejects high court order to reinstate fired military leader
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Federal judge sets Blagojevich trial for June 2010
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Berezovsky found guilty of fraud by Russia court
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Financier Stanford pleads not guilty in $7 billion fraud scheme
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Russia court orders retrial for suspects acquitted of Politkovskaya killing
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday approved a controversial bill that would allow legal privatization of publicly held Amazon land. The measure is aimed at stabilizing...
The US Senate Armed Services Committee announced Friday the approval an appropriations bill that would alter the rules of evidence used in military commission trials. The version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal...
A federal bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved a motion to allow General Motors (GM) to borrow $33.3 billion in debtor in possession financing from the US and Canadian governments to finance a new...
Impeached federal judge Samuel Kent on Thursday resigned from his seat on the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas effective at the end of June. Kent's resignation comes a...
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya rejected a Supreme Court decision Thursday that called for the reinstatement of a military general whom Zelaya fired Wednesday. Zelaya's decision comes amidst a controversy over a referendum on...
A judge in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Thursday set the corruption trial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich for June 3, 2010. Lawyers for two aids indicted...
Self-exiled Russian business tycoon Boris Berezovsky was found guilty of fraud in absentia Thursday by a Moscow regional court. The court found that Berezovsky and his business associate Yuli Dubov embezzled...
Billionaire financier Allen Stanford pleaded not guilty Thursday to 21 charges of fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas but remained in prison overnight....
The Russian Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the retrial of three men acquitted of involvement in the 2006 shooting death of journalist Anna Politkovskaya . The court vacated the...
