The trial of accused "rogue trader" Jerome Kerviel began Tuesday in a French court. Kerviel has been charged with breach of trust, forgery, and breaching IT access codes relating to $73 billion worth of unauthorized trades he made while working for French bank Societe Generale . Societe Generale lost nearly USD $7 billion when it [...]
The Bolivian National Congress on Tuesday approved legislation that would create an independent justice system for indigenous communities. The Law of Judicial Authority, passed by the Chamber of Deputies , the lower house of Congress, would create a system of "communal justice" that would expedite the settlement of disputes and end the colonization of justice, [...]
The Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Monday that the government has changed its position concerning a previous decision not to invite Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to an African Union (AU) summit to be held in Kampala in July. On Saturday, President Yoweri Museveni said that Bashir, who is wanted for war crimes by the [...]
A UK plan that would return children who arrive in the country without a guardian to Afghanistan is being heavily criticized by human rights organizations and refugee advocacy groups. The UK plan calls for the building of a "reintegration center" in Kabul where approximately 12 males ages 16 to 17 would be sent per month. [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday reiterated the importance of an international component in the investigation into the May 31 Israeli raid on several Turkish ships bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip . Ban's original proposal to establish an investigatory panel comprised of representatives from Israel, Turkey, and other unnamed countries, was rejected by Israeli [...]
World peace has declined over the past year due to a global increase in homicides and violent crime, according to the Global Peace Index (GPI) published Tuesday. The GPI measures countries' relative peacefulness on a rubric of factors that encompass things such as respect for human rights, perceived criminality in society, potential for terrorist acts, [...]
The state prosecutor of Bosnia and Herzegovina indicted three Serbian men for crimes against humanity for their roles in an attack on the town of Cajnice during the Bosnian civil war . Milutin Kornjaca, Milorad Zivikovic and Dusko Tadic are charged with killing 11 Muslims in May 1992 as members of the Serbian Blue Eagles [...]
The Bangkok Central Criminal Court granted bail to two anti-government protest leaders on Tuesday, as the Thai government extended the country's state of emergency. Jatuporn Prompan and Karun Hongsakul face charges of terrorism , instigating violence, and unlawful assembly in connection with their leadership positions in the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) , [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order temporarily blocking the state of Arizona from releasing campaign subsidies to publicly funded candidates under the state's campaign finance reform law . The order comes after the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the district court's ruling and upheld the financing system and [...]
UK Energy Secretary Chris Huhne announced Tuesday that the government will increase inspection of North Sea oil rigs and monitoring of offshore compliance and safety standards in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Huhne said that the government also established the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group [...]
