Protesters led by Thailand's People's Alliance for Democracy petitioned the country's National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) Monday, asking it to bring new corruption charges against government officials and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra . The protesters are seeking new charges against the government for allegedly granting Cambodia full claim to a historic temple in exchange [...]
US President George W. Bush issued a memorandum Monday to the Secretary of the Interior, lifting an executive ban on offshore oil drilling put in place in 1990 by then-President George H. W. Bush. Monday's action will have little practical effect because offshore drilling is still prohibited by a longstanding congressional moratorium. The limitation on [...]
Canadian government leaders reached an agreement with Nova Scotian officials on Sunday which requires the Canadian government to pay the province $235 million CAD for lost profits from prior government offshore oil and gas projects. In 1980, the Canadian government obtained the right to buy partial ownership in private Canadian oil and gas projects, including [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo applied for an arrest warrant Monday for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes for atrocities committed in the country's Darfur region . The application follows a three-year investigation into atrocities and genocide in Darfur that began with the referral [...]
The Supreme Court of Switzerland Monday ruled that Doctors without Borders (MSF) must repay the Dutch government for its share of a ransom paid to secure the release of a MSF official. MSF's former Dagestan head was kidnapped in 2002 , and his abductors demanded 1 million euros in ransom. The Dutch government contributed 770,000 [...]
A former vice president for Hewlett Packard (HP) pleaded guilty Friday to one count of theft of trade secrets for giving HP protected information he obtained while working for IBM . Atul Malhotra said in his plea that before leaving IBM, he requested and received information on IBM's pricing and marketing strategies, which he then e-mailed to [...]
The French Council of State has denied a Moroccan-born Muslim woman's citizenship application because she failed to assimilate to French culture and she practices a type of Islam found incompatible with French values. The ruling was made public for the first time on Friday by the French newspaper Le Monde, which reported that the Council [...]
French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday that officials will have to adjust the final declaration of a Paris Mediterranean summit because of a disagreement between Israelis and Palestinians on how Israel is described in the agreement. The summit began Sunday and was designed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy as an effort to unify Mediterranean countries around [...]
Turkish prosecutors indicted 86 alleged members of the secular Ergenekon group Monday for allegedly attempting to destabilize and overthrow the country's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) . The group is believed responsible for bombing the headquarters of the newspaper Cumhuriyet , assassinating Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink , and planning other attacks to provoke a [...]
Sudan has asked the Arab League to convene emergency crisis talks concerning a possible International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . The Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa has agreed to hold the requested meeting, although no time or date has been set. ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is expected to [...]
