A Bangladesh High Court has dismissed the last of 15 corruption cases against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina , her lawyer said Monday. The court held that Hasina had not committed a criminal offense when she used government funds to to appoint US lobbyists to represent the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority during her 1996-2001 administration. [...]
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said Friday that she will not seek the assistance of state Attorney General Terry Goddard in defending against challenges to the new immigration law . The announcement came after Goddard met with officials from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Friday and held a press conference hours before the DOJ met [...]
A US immigration judge on Thursday ordered Times Square bombing suspect Aftab Ali Khan deported to his native Pakistan. Khan was arrested along with two other men earlier this month on immigration charges under the suspicion that they transferred money to Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad, but Khan told authorities that he had never [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Saturday for gay rights reform throughout the international community. Praising Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika for his Friday decision to pardon a gay couple recently sentenced to 14 years in prison on sodomy charges, Ban stated that the UN cannot "stay quiet when people are denied fundamental rights – whatever [...]
A task force initiated by the US government to evaluate the status of Guantanamo Bay detainees has reported that only 10 percent of inmates were terrorist leaders when President Barack Obama took office in 2009. The Guantanamo Bay Task Force completed the report in January, but it was not disclosed to Congress until last week, [...]
Rwandan police on Friday arrested American lawyer Peter Erlinder in Kigali on charges that he denied the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Erlinder, a defense lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and president of the ICTR's Association of Defense Lawyers (ADAD), was in Rwanda to prepare his defense of opposition presidential candidate Victoire [...]
The US Supreme Court on Friday denied a request by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to delay the start of his corruption trial by 30 days. Blagojevich had sought to postpone the start of his trial in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois until the Supreme Court issues opinions in cases [...]
The Nepalese government on Friday extended the term of parliament by one year in order to develop a new democratic constitution. The agreement between Nepal's main political parties occurred just after midnight, when the Constituent Assembly was due to dissolve along with nation's Interim Constitution . Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal also agreed to resign [...]
Chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Serge Brammertz said Friday that Croatia must make additional efforts to assist in investigations of war crimes during the 1991-1995 Balkan war . Approval from Brammertz is crucial to Croatia's European Union (EU) bid, as it enters into the final round of negotiations [...]
The US House of Representatives voted 229-186 Friday to approve a defense spending bill containing an amendment to repeal the military's controversial "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy . The amendment , added Thursday on a vote of 234-194 , would prevent the repeal from taking effect until the completion of a review to determine what [...]
