Former commander of the Bosnian army during the 1992-1994 Bosnian civil war Rasim Delic died Friday of cancer in his home. Delic was awaiting a decision from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on his appeal from his 2008 conviction . Delic was found guilty of cruel treatment for failing to prevent [...]
An Arkansas judge ruled Friday that a state law prohibiting all unmarried couples from adopting or fostering children violates the Arkansas Constitution . Critics claimed that the Arkansas Adoption and Foster Care Act of 2008 , or Initiated Act I, was discriminatory because it prohibited all gay couples from adopting or fostering children as Arkansas [...]
A federal grand jury on Friday indicted five former Blackwater executives on charges of weapons violations and lying to criminal investigators. The 15-count indictment charges five former executives, including former president Gary Jackson, with giving away certain weapons to the King of Jordan to curry favor and then lying on federal forms about where the [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil suit on Friday alleging securities fraud against Goldman, Sachs & Co. . The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York , alleges that Goldman made misleading statements and omissions to investors in early 2007 in violation of the [...]
Internal Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) documents released Thursday reveal that the former head of the agency Porter Goss may have agreed with the destruction of videotapes showing harsh interrogations of terror suspects. The heavily redacted documents reveal that, despite being unaware of the order before it was carried out, Goss agreed with the order from [...]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday decried the recent decision by Hamas to execute several of its prisoners. On Thursday, the de-facto government of Palestinian Gaza executed Naser Abu Furaih and Mohamed al-Sabaa, both of whom were convicted of treason last February in connection with the Israeli occupation of Gaza. Pillay, [...]
The Regensburg District Court in southern Germany convicted British Bishop Richard Williamson of incitement on Friday for denying the Holocaust and ordered him to pay a 10,000 euro fine. The case stemmed from an interview to Swedish TV channel SVT1, broadcast in January 2009,in which Williamson said he doubted that six million Jews were killed [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Thursday ordered Imam Ahmad Afzali to leave the country within 90 days. Afzali pleaded guilty in March to lying to FBI agents in connection with the investigation of a plot to detonate explosives in the New York City subway system. [...]
A judge for US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin ruled Thursday that the National Day of Prayer is an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. Judge Barbara Crabb issued summary judgment in favor of the Freedom from Religion Foundation , which challenged 36 USC § 119 , establishing a day of prayer. The [...]
US President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to expand the rights of patients and non-related visitors in hospitals that receive funding from Medicaid and Medicare . The rules that Obama asked HHS to establish are designed to ensure that hospitals respect the rights of patients' [...]
