UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday proposed a referendum to reform the nation's election system. Brown has proposed an alternative voting system in which voters would rank candidates in order of preference. He added that the change will not affect the forthcoming elections. Brown said: If the people decide to back the alternative vote, [...]
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced on Tuesday the creation of a panel to prepare the Department of Defense (DOD) for the repeal of the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy . In a hearing before the US Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) , Gates said that the group will review the potential [...]
Jon May : "On Monday, January 25, 2010, the Supreme Court denied General Manuel Noriega's petition for certiorari review. But the case before the Court is hardly at an end. Counsel for General Noriega will file a petition for rehearing on February 19, 2010. While it is rare for the Court to grant such a [...]
Former Guinean junta aide Lieutenant Aboubacar Cherif "Toumba" Diakite is the sole government official to blame for the killing of more than 150 civilians in Conakry in September, a commission created by Guinea's junta announced on Tuesday. The commission's conclusion contradicts a UN report that blamed junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara , Minister for Special [...]
Former UK international development secretary Clare Short told the Iraq Inquiry in a public hearing on Tuesday that Former UK prime minister Tony Blair was "misleading" and "deceitful" with the Cabinet and parliament regarding the Iraq invasion. Short rejected Blair's statements to the Inquiry last week, in which he claimed that there had been "substantive" [...]
Iran will "soon execute" nine more Iranian citizens for their roles in last summer's post-election protests , according to a statement given by senior judiciary official Ebrahim Raisi to the Fars News Agency Tuesday. The nine protesters are charged with the capital crime of moharebeh, which means waging war against God. Opposition leader Mir Hossein [...]
The Constitutional Court of Togo ruled Tuesday that presidential candidate Kofi Yamgnane is not eliglble to run in the February 28 election. Yamgnane was to face incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe of the ruling Rally of the Togolese People (RTP) party. The court rejected Yamgnane's bid over inconsistent records of his date of birth and conflicting [...]
The Dutch Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed the 2008 acquittals of seven men charged with belonging to a terrorist network, ordering a new trial. The seven men, suspected of belonging to the Dutch Muslim Hofstad Network terrorist group, were originally convicted of planning attacks on Dutch politicians and were connected to the November 2004 murder [...]
A French court on Tuesday began the trial to determine the cause of the Air France Concorde jet crash outside Paris in 2000. French officials blame US-based Continental Airlines for the accident, alleging that a piece of metal fell off of a Continental plane and onto the runway, later causing the damage to the Concorde. [...]
The Nigeria-based Socio-Economic Rights & Accountability Project (SERAP) has submitted a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo requesting an inquiry into the spate of religious violence that erupted in the city of Jos in January. SERAP lawyers argue that the ICC should investigate alleged unlawful killings and other human rights abuses [...]
