Defense lawyers for former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Friday sought to have new charges of embezzlement and money laundering against Khordorkovsky and his former business partner Platon Lebedev dropped. The two men are accused...
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Khodorkovsky seeks dismissal of new charges for lack of evidence
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EU, Kenya reach pirate prosecution agreement
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Kenya rights activist killings must be investigated: UN special rapporteur
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Spain panel proposes sweeping abortion reforms
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UN may investigate Sudan for expelling foreign aid groups
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EPA reconsiders California request to regulate vehicle emissions
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Rights group urges Sri Lanka and Tamil Tigers to evacuate civilians
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California Supreme Court hears Proposition 8 arguments
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Federal judge upholds guilty verdicts in Fort Dix conspiracy
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Europe rights court holds Russia responsible for Chechen death
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The European Union (EU) announced Friday that it has entered into an agreement with Kenya to transfer suspected pirates captured by EU counter-pirate operations into Kenyan custody for prosecution. The agreement...
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Philip Alston on Friday called for an independent investigation into the Thursday killings of Kenyan human rights activists Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu. The...
A panel of legal and medical experts headed by Spanish Minister of Equality Bibiano Aido on Wednesday proposed sweeping reforms to Spain's current abortion laws. The panel contends...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesman Rupert Colville said Friday that his office may investigate whether Sudan's expulsion of foreign aid agencies is a possible breach of human rights law or war crime. Colville...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday held a hearing to reconsider California's request to regulate automobile greenhouse gases . Chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board Mary Nichols was joined by environmental...
The Sri Lankan government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) should agree on an evacuation plan for civilians caught in hostilities between the groups in the country's...
The California Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in three cases challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8 , the ballot measure passed in November that banned same-sex marriage in the...
A federal judge at the US District Court for the District of New Jersey on Thursday upheld the guilty verdicts reached by a jury against five men convicted of plotting to kill US soldiers at...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Russia is liable for the death of an ethnic Chechen at the hands of Russian forces in 2000, finding Russia in violation of the European...
