Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Vygaudas Usackas said Wednesday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will begin talks with the US about the possibility of accepting prisoners from Guantanamo Bay . Lithuanian Defense Minister Rasa Jukneviciene expects to discuss the matter with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates during her first diplomatic visit to the US since [...]
A report issued Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commended China's developmental progress, while urging the nation to share best practices in poverty reduction and to improve the national standard of living. The report follows China's evaluation under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process adopted by the UN in 2006, which aims to [...]
The Intermediate People's Court of Shijiazhuang on Thursday declared bankrupt Sanlu Group , the Chinese dairy company at the center of the contaminated milk scandal that killed six and sickened 300,000. As a result of a court order to compensate families whose children were sickened by the tainted milk, the company borrowed money, causing its [...]
FBI Deputy Director John Pistole said Wednesday the FBI is looking at shifting a number of agents from national security and counterterrorism activities to investigations involving financial fraud, during a hearing before the US Senate Judiciary Committee . Pistole said there are currently more than 1600 ongoing mortgage fraud investigations, along with more than 530 [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugolavia (ICTY) on Wednesday indefinitely suspended the trial of Volislav Seselj over fears that witnesses were being intimidated. Seselj, leader of the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) , is charged with three counts of crimes against humanity and six counts of war crimes, and is accused of establishing [...]
Derek Humphry : "The controversy over the right to die of Eluana Englaro is really a battle over religious beliefs and secondarily about the law of Italy. The law is being used as a political football in a struggle for moral power by the Vatican over the rules of life and death. All over the [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied Tuesday a petition by two Guantanamo Bay detainees to stop the force-feeding imposed on them during their hunger strike, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction over the matter. The petitioners, Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bawazir and Omar Khamis Bin Hamdoon, further alleged that [...]
Officials from the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Thursday that the ICC has not issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir , refuting Wednesday reports that the warrant had been issued. The Wednesday reports, allegedly based on statements by an anonymous UN diplomat, said that the ICC had reached a decision on the [...]
Information redacted from a British High Court decision released last week has been withheld from US President Barack Obama and may hold key information about British involvement in the alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed , according to a letter sent by Mohamed's lawyer to Obama. The letter, sent Monday by Reprieve director [...]
JURIST Staffer Eric Linge, Pitt Law '10, interned in Addis Ababa last summer… Will membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) help Ethiopia's agricultural sector? Indeed, would the agricultural sector of any least-developed country (LDC) be helped by membership? Not surprisingly, these were the first questions posed after distinguished world trade scholar Dr. Melaku Geboye [...]
