An Italian military tribunal in Rome has indicted three Italian soldiers for a 2004 attack on an ambulance in the town of Nasiriyah in Iraq that resulted in the deaths of four civilians, Italian newspaper Corriere...
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Italy military court indicts soldiers for shooting Iraqi civilians in ambulance mix-up
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Supreme Court to make oral argument transcripts public same-day
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Retired judges urge Congress to retain habeas jurisdiction for Guantanamo detainees
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Dutch court cites torture risk in refusing to extradite suspect to Turkey
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Second conviction for Thai election commissioners involved in voided vote
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US House passes new ethics rule requiring disclosure of earmark spending sponsors
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Spain says CIA rendition flights may have used Spanish airports
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Japan cult leader faces hanging after losing appeal in subway gas attack case
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House passes Mexico border fence bill
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Colorado worker wins transgender discrimination claim
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The US Supreme Court will provide copies of oral argument transcripts on the Court's website the same day that cases are heard when the Court begins its new term on October 2, the court announced ...
Nine former federal judges sent a letter to Congress on Thursday raising concerns about a provision in the proposed Military Commissions Act of 2006 that, according to the judges, would "strip the federal courts of...
The Supreme Court of the Netherlands on Friday refused to extradite the leader of the Kurdistan Worker's Party to Turkey, citing the possibility that she could be...
Three former employees of the Election Commission of Thailand received their second conviction on Friday for dereliction of duty in the April 2 election . The officials, who are appealing a July four-year sentence...
The US House of Representatives Thursday adopted a new rule requiring lawmakers to disclose their sponsorship of so-called "earmarks" inserted into bills to fund special spending projects. H.Res. 1000 requires that bills coming out of committee,...
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos acknowledged Thursday that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) planes transporting detainees to secret prisons in Europe may have stopped over on its...
The Supreme Court of Japan rejected a death penalty appeal Friday by former cult leader Shoko Asahara , who was convicted of masterminding the 1995 nerve gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system [MIPT...
The US House of Representatives voted 283-138 Thursday for a bill providing for the construction of a 700-mile fence along the US-Mexico border designed to curb illegal immigration . The Secure Fence Act of 2006...
The Colorado Division of Civil Rights (CCRD) has ruled that an employer violated the state's anti-discrimination laws when it fired an employee who was preparing to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Intermountain Testing claimed...
