During a US House Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy spoke against a bill that would permit public broadcasting of Supreme Court oral arguments. The justices told lawmakers...
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Justices speak out against televising Supreme Court proceedings
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Besigye pleads not guilty to treason charges in Uganda
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Nepal government cracks down on planned protests
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New mass protests against French youth labor law
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DeLay to resign from Congress as legal battles continue
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California federal judge bans public release of information on executioners
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Taylor assembles defense team for Sierra Leone war crimes trial
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UK defense minister calls for changes to laws of war, review of Geneva Conventions
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Peru justice minister says ex-president Fujimori to be extradited from Chile soon
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Annan calls for ratifications of mine ban treaty
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Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and 22 others pleaded not guilty to treason charges Tuesday at the opening of their trial in Kampala. The charges allege that the men plotted to forcefully overthrow the...
King Gyanendra and the royal government of Nepal on Tuesday banned all public meetings in the cities of Kathmandu and Lalitpur, a move the opposition has vowed to fight. The ban, which...
French demonstrators staged a fifth day of protests Tuesday against the First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) , a labor law that would create an age-based exception to traditional French labor regulations by...
US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) said Tuesday that he is resigning from his seat in the US House of Representatives rather than enter a tough re-election race this fall. DeLay...
US District Judge Jeremy Fogel has authorized lawyers to obtain information on executioners at San Quentin Prison, but has banned the release of any details about them to the public. Lawyers for convicted murderer and death row...
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor met with several potential defense lawyers after he pleaded not guilty Monday to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the...
British Defense Minister John Reid on Tuesday called for changes to the international rules of war, including the Geneva Conventions , in order to allow countries to better confront terrorism and other threats. In...
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori will be extradited from Chile to Peru to face corruption and human rights charges before this summer, Peru's Justice Minister Alejandro Tudela ...
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday called on states to ratify the 1997 anti-personnel mine ban treaty and said that it should only take ten years to rid the world of all land mines will take...
