Former South African President Thabo Mbeki on Friday asked to be joined as amicus curiae to an appeal by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) challenging the dismissal of all fraud and corruption...
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Mbeki seeks to join prosecution appeal in Zuma case
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Uruguay president vetoes legislation decriminalizing abortion
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Kenya claims progress on abuse issues in response to UN torture report
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Italy court acquits majority of police charged in 2001 G8 summit raid case
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Israel destruction of Palestine homes violates international law: Switzerland
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Scotland court denies bail for Lockerbie Pan Am 103 bomber
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Morocco court convicts ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee on terrorism charges
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Algeria parliament approves constitutional change dropping presidential term limits
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US failing to protect undocumented minors: report
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China lawyers proceeding with class action lawsuit over tainted milk
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Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez on Friday vetoed legislation that would have partially decriminalized abortion in the country. The bill was passed by Uruguay's Senate [official website,...
The Kenyan government Friday said in response to a report by the UN Committee on Torture focusing on post-election violence that occurred in the country in late 2007 and early 2008 that it was taking...
An Italian court on Thursday acquitted 16 police officers and convicted 13 officers on charges of violence in raiding a school that protesters of the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa ...
Switzerland's Federal Department for Foreign Affairs (FDFA) condemned Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem as a violation of international humanitarian law in a statement Thursday and called on Israel to stop...
A panel of Scotland's High Court of Justiciary Friday denied bail to convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi . The plane was blown up...
A Moroccan criminal court on Thursday convicted Moroccan citizen Said Boujandia of crimes associated with terrorist acts. The Sale Criminal Court sentenced Boujandia to 10 years in a Moroccan prison. Boujandia admitted his association with with a...
The parliament of Algeria approved a constitutional amendment Wednesday that removed the law limiting the country's president to two terms in office. In a joint vote, both houses of the Algerian parliament, the Council of Nation [official...
The Center for Public Policy Priorities said Thursday that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not do enough to protect the rights and welfare of minors who have entered the country illegally. In...
Lawyers providing legal services to at least 100 Chinese children sickened by tainted milk products have decided to continue with a class action lawsuit against government-owned dairy farm Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group Co., the focus of recalls following...
