Grand jury transcripts released Thursday suggest that testimony critical to the 1953 espionage conviction of Ethel Rosenberg was perjured. The National Archives made public nearly 1,000 pages of testimony given by 41 of the 45 grand jury witnesses in the Rosenberg case, as ordered by the US District Court for the Southern District of New [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Maoist-led Nepalese government Thursday to 'vigorously' investigate and prosecute those responsible for the grave human rights violations allegedly committed during the country's civil war. In a joint report , HRW and the Nepal-based Advocacy Forum recommended that even members of the security forces must be investigated for any role [...]
Fiji's former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said Friday that police have failed to take his statement regarding treason allegations he has made against the country's interim prime minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama . Earlier this month, Qarase charged that Bainimarama and others who participated in a December 2006 military coup had committed treason by ousting Qarase's [...]
Serbian President Boris Tadic urged UN members Thursday to support his country's request for an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion on the legality of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo . In Thursday's letter to all UN members, Tadic stated: The opinion of the ICJ as to whether Kosovo’s unilateral independence declaration was [...]
US Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne pledged Thursday that he would "take swift action to restore the public trust" following an investigation which found corruption in the Department of the Interior (DOI) agency charged with collecting royalties from mineral rights to federal land. In a memorandum accompanying reports released Wednesday, DOI Inspector General Earl [...]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found Ljubisa Petkovic guilty of contempt on Thursday for refusing to testify against Serbian war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj . Petkovic had been a member of the Serbian Radical Party , of which Seseli had been the president, and refused to testify as a witness for [...]
EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Jacques Barrot on Thursday said Google is taking a "step in the right direction" by keeping data on search engine users for nine months rather than 18. Google announced the change this week "to address regulatory concerns" and protect users' privacy . Barrot suggested that Google further reduce the [...]
A trial judge in Key West has found Florida's law preventing gay and lesbian people from adopting children to be unconstitutional and has issued an order permitting a foster parent to adopt a 13-year-old boy. Judge David J. Audlin Jr. of the Monroe County Circuit Court ruled that the 1977 statute violates both the US [...]
Iowa's Attorney General's Office announced on Tuesday that it has filed a complaint against meatpacking company Agriprocessors Inc. and its top officials for 9,311 child labor law violations. The alleged violations stem from the company's employment of 32 minors, 25 under the age of 18 and 7 under the age of 16, in conditions prohibited [...]
Retail chain Walgreens filed a lawsuit Monday in California Superior Court seeking an injunction and the repeal of an ordinance that prohibits the sale of tobacco at pharmacies in San Francisco . Walgreens argues that the ban is unconstitutional because it does not apply to grocery stores and large retailers such as Wal-Mart , which [...]
