Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) officials released a "charge sheet" Sunday against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf amid renewed calls from political leaders for his impeachment or outright resignation. The 10-point charge sheet details instances when Musharraf allegedly used his executive powers improperly, including November's declaration of emergency rule and the subsequent removal of superior court judges, [...]
Turkish parliamentary speaker Koksal Toptan called Saturday for changes to the structure of Turkey's parliament and constitution in the aftermath of a decision earlier this week by the Constitutional Court of Turkey striking down recent amendments to the constitution designed to ease a ban on headscarves in universities. Toptan told a news conference in Ankara [...]
The CEO of Exxon Mobil , Rex Tillerson , said Saturday that Russia needs to make changes to its judicial system in order to attract foreign investment. Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) , he said: " must improve the functioning of its judicial system. There is no confidence in the rule [...]
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun a formal antitrust investigation of US computer chip manufacturer Intel Corporation . Intel's chip manufacturing rival, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has claimed for years that Intel has been engaged in uncompetitive business practices, but this is the first formal action taken by the FTC. The probe constitutes [...]
The Myanmar military government should investigate allegations that police opened fire on panicked prisoners during last month's devastating cyclone, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana said Friday. In a report to the UN Human Rights Council , Ojea Quintana alleged soldiers and riot police began shooting prisoners [...]
The US should not try children under the age of 18 in military tribunals, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said in a report released Friday as part of a periodic review of compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child . The committee also called on the US to [...]
A panel of three international judges in the ethnically-divided town of Mitrovica sentenced an ethnic Albanian man Friday to 40 years in prison for a 2001 bus bombing that killed 11 Serbs on a religious trip. Florim Ejupi was indicted in 2005 on charges related to the bus bombing and the killings of two police [...]
A federal grand jury has indicted two former executives of Silicon Valley technology firm Broadcom in connection with a scheme to backdate company stock options. According to the indictment unsealed in federal court Thursday, firm co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III and former CEO William J. Ruehle engaged in a "conspiracy to disguise, conceal, understate, and [...]
A UK High Court judge has ordered an expedited hearing on whether the UK government must turn over documents allegedly showing that the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay was tortured. US military prosecutors last week charged Ethiopian London resident Binyam Mohamed with conspiring to commit terrorism. Mohamed was originally arrested in Pakistan and [...]
A spokesman for the Japanese cabinet said Friday that the government would officially recognize the Ainu – an ethnic minority mainly concentrated on Japan's Hokkaido island who traditionally lived by hunting, gathering and fishing – as an indigenous population after both houses of the country's parliament unanimously endorsed a non-binding resolution urging the move. The [...]
