The Iraqi Special Tribunal announced Sunday that five as-yet-unnamed judges have been selected to preside over the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven of his associates for the 1982 killings of 143 Shiite Muslims...
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Five judges selected for upcoming Saddam trial
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Afghanistan officials to investigate voting fraud
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Lawyers request DOJ supervision over temporary Louisiana prison facility
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Connecticut begins offering civil union licenses
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Imprisoned Russian ex-energy minister goes on hunger strike in Switzerland
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US makes last-ditch bid for Iraq constitution compromise
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Egyptian detainee freed from Guantanamo Bay
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US releases second group of 500 Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib
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UN human rights chief wants observers at Uzbek trials of accused rebels
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White House threatens veto if Senate adds detainee treatment amendment to defense bill
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The UN-Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) announced Sunday that it will investigate allegations of voting fraud in last months legislative elections . The JEMB decision says that the instances of fraud, including ballot stuffing...
Lawyers acting on behalf of former New Orleans prisoners have filed papers asking the US Department of Justice to immediately assume direct supervision over a temporary holding facility at a closed juvenile prison in Jena, Louisiana, the...
Connecticut joined Vermont Saturday as the second US state that recognizes civil unions for same-sex couples . The development was marked by special Saturday hours at Hartfords City Hall [press...
Yevgeny Adamov, the former minister in charge of the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) has gone on hunger strike in a Swiss prison, where he has been held since May 2. Adamov, 66, is demanding that Swiss...
US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad has started new negotiations with Shiites and Kurds in a last-ditch attempt to achieve a political compromise on the provisions of the draft Iraqi constitution creating a federal...
The US Department of Defense announced Saturday the release of one Egyptian detainee from the prison at Guantanamo Bay after a military Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined he was no longer...
The US military Saturday released a second group of 500 Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib prison following an earlier release of more than 500 detainees Monday , and a release of another 1.000 ...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour announced Friday that she intends to send an official observer to the Uzbekistan trial of protestors accused of plotting a rebellion during the spring Andijan uprising [HRW...
The White House Friday threatened to veto a $440.2 billion defense spending bill if the Senate amended it to establish a national commission on detainee operations or include provisions regulating the detention, treatment, or trial of terrorists. In an...
