Italy’s highest administrative court, the State Council , announced Saturday that it would not restore a candidate list from the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi . The candidate list for the region of Lazio was submitted late and contained People of Freedom party candidates for regional elections scheduled to be held at the [...]
William J. Snape, III : "While it is encouraging that China and India now recognize their important role in reducing world greenhouse pollution, neither their current commitments nor the Copenhagen Accord are answers to the most serious environmental problem the world has ever faced. The best available science tells us that we must reduce atmospheric [...]
In a telephone conversation Saturday, US President Barack Obama and Russia President Dmitry Medvedev approved of progress towards the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty since 1991. Wrapping up talks on the treaty to replace the recently expired Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I Treaty) , Obama and Medvedev reviewed the negotiations, agreed to provide additional [...]
Spokesperson for Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric Saturday announced the arrest of nine individuals suspected of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war . The nine, members of the Serbian paramilitary group Sakali, are accused of the systematic murders of 41 ethnic Albanians in May 1999. In all, roughly 200 [...]
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Saturday jointly denounced the Swedish Parliament's Thursday passage of a resolution recognizing the Ottoman Empire's killing of Armenians between 1915 and 1923 as genocide . At a meeting of European foreign ministers in northern Finland Davutoglu questioned the rationale of the move, one that [...]
The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) war crimes court indicted the former Serb commander of a special police brigade Saturday for his alleged role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian civil war . The BiH prosecutor accuses Nedjo Ikonic of participating in the killing of thousands of Muslim men and boys including more than [...]
A court of first instance in Marseilles Friday ordered that anti-Islamic campaign posters put up by the far-right National Front be taken down . The posters , proclaiming “No to Islamism”, depict a fully veiled woman standing next to a map of France with the pattern of the Algerian flag on it, and are directly [...]
The California Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) filed a consumer protection suit against car manufacturer Toyota on Friday, alleging that the company knowingly sold vehicles with acceleration defects. The suit seeks up to $2,500 in penalties for each violation of California's Unfair Business Practices Act . The OCDA outlined the case against Toyota, saying it [...]
Mead v. Secretary of Health and Human Services Case No. 03-215V, King v. Secretary of Health and Human Services Case No. 03-584V, Dwyer v. Secretary of Health and Human Services Case No. 03-1202V, US Federal Court of Claims, March 12, 2010 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more [...]
Three special masters sitting in the US Federal Court of Claims Friday rejected three compensation actions brought in a coordinated omnibus proceeding by families of autistic children who had argued that their children's autism was induced by vaccines containing mercury-laden thimerosol. The families had sought compensation under the no-fault National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program . [...]
