Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Saturday lifted emergency rule over the country as anticipated , issuing an order reviving the suspended constitution, entrenching members of the country's post-emergency judiciary, and insulating actions taken under...
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Pakistan emergency rule lifted, constitution revived
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DOJ refusing to turn over info on CIA interrogation tapes probe
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UN panel ends mandate of Darfur human rights monitors
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Musharraf amends Pakistan constitution in lead-up to lifting emergency rule
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France right-wing leader goes on trial accused of pro-Nazi remarks
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UK parliamentary panel opposes extending terror detention without charge limit
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Chad ‘Darfur orphans’ airlift trial to start December 21
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Russia, UK trade legal barbs over British Council shutdown order
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Libya foreign minister denies HIV case torture claim
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FBI launches probe into Iraq reconstruction IG: report
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US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday that the Department of Justice will not provide information to congressional officials regarding its ongoing probe into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects. In a...
The UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to end the mandate of a group of seven human rights experts tasked with monitoring the rights situation in the Darfur region in Sudan. The council did,...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Friday promulgated an order to amend the Pakistani constitution, allowing the president to declare a state of emergency without parliamentary ratification and providing that any judge who has...
Jean-Marie Le Pen , leader of France's far-right National Front party , went on trial Friday for "complicity in contesting crimes against humanity and complicity in justifying war crimes." The charges stem from Le Pen's...
The UK parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) Friday issued a report opposing a proposal by the government to extend the time limit on detaining terror suspects from 28 to 42 days....
A court in Chad has set December 21 as the trial date for six French nationals connected with the abortive effort by French charity Zoe's Ark to airlift so-called "Darfur orphans" out of...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Friday defended a Russian government directive earlier this week to shut down local offices of the British Council by January 1, saying that the offices in Yekaterinburg and...
Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalqam Friday denied that Libya engages in torture in response to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a Palestinian doctor detained in Libya after being accused of deliberately infected hundreds of children with the...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched a criminal probe of Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) Stuart Bowen on allegations that he misappropriated taxpayer money to pay for his legal defense...
