Croatian lawmaker Branimir Glavas , charged with committing war crimes against Serbs during the 1991 Serbo-Croatian war , was stripped of his parliamentary immunity on Saturday so that lawyers could proceed with his prosecution....
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Croatia parliament strips lawmaker’s immunity for war crimes case
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Ousted Pakistan top court judge put under house arrest again; Chaudhry resists move
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Bangladesh ex-PM Hasina formally charged with extortion
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US intelligence chief says waterboarding would be torture ‘for me’
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NASA contract employees background checks ruling [9th Circuit]
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Iraq parliament passes bill allowing reinstatement of ex-Baath party members
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Chile court sentences Pinochet police chief to 10-year prison term
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No UN Hariri-style probe of Bhutto assassination: Musharraf
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US immigration officials told to seek court orders before sedating unwilling deportees
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Guantanamo commander reassigned after six-month tenure
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Ousted Pakistani Supreme Court Justice Rana Bhagwandas was placed under house arrest Saturday for urging members of the Karachi Bar Association to boycott judges who had taken oaths of office under President Pervez Musharraf's now-abrogated Provisional...
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was formally charged with extortion in Dhaka on Sunday. Hasina and co-defendant Sheikh Selim, a former Minister of Government, are accused of extorting around $1.16 million from two...
US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said in an article published in the New Yorker Sunday that waterboarding , the controversial interrogation technique simulating drowning allegedly used against detainees by the CIA,...
Robert M. Nelson et al. v. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, January 11, 2008 [ruling that NASA cannot compel low-risk contract employees working at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory to undergo...
The Iraqi parliament on Saturday approved a bill that will allow most members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party to be reinstated to public life. The law, known as the Justice and Accountability...
A Chilean appeals court in Santiago Friday sentenced General Manuel Contreras , the secret police chief under former dictator Augusto Pinochet , to 10 years in prison. Contreras, the former head of Pinochet's...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ruled out the possibility of a United Nations investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in an interview with a French newspaper published Friday. He told...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a memo saying that its officers are now required to obtain a judge's approval before a deportee can be sedated in order to facilitate his or her removal from...
US Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby , commander of the Guantanamo Bay military prison, was reassigned Friday after only six months at that position. The date of Buzby's departure for the Virginia-based US Fleet...
