told reporters Saturday that the Australian government has given Dr. Mohammad Haneef permission to leave Australia, reversing a previous decision to place the former terror suspect under home detention . Haneef's transfer to home detention followed the Australian chief prosecutor's decision Friday to drop the terror charge Haneef faced in connection with June's attempted UK [...]
An Indian court Friday sentenced to death Yakub Memon, the brother of a man suspected of plotting the 1993 Mumbai bombings remains at large. Another brother, Essa Memon, received a life sentence Friday, as did two other Memon relatives connected with the plot. Thus far the court has sentenced 12 people to death and 20 [...]
The US Congress sent an anti-terror bill to President George Bush for signature Friday. The bill, based on recommendations by the 9/11 commission , would transfer funds to states and cities found to be at high risk for terrorist attacks. It also includes a provision to screen all air and sea cargo coming into the [...]
Taiwanese Foreign Minister James Huang said Friday that a national referendum on Taiwan's membership in the United Nations would proceed despite opposition from China. On Monday, the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs rejected Taiwan's fifteenth bid for member state status, reiterating the One-China Policy and recognizing the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the [...]
The government of Sudan said Thursday that it will appeal a US court verdict ordering it to pay $7.96 million in compensation to the families of 17 US Navy personnel killed in the 2000 al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole . Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed Ali al-Mardi denied that Sudan bore any responsibility for [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that UN officials will not testify before the East Timorese-Indonesian Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) because the CTF's terms of reference allow for the possibility of amnesty for the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Ban, who reiterated the recommendations in the Report of the Secretary-General on justice and [...]
The UN Human Rights Committee Friday urged the Sudanese government to "take all appropriate measures" to guarantee that all state agents, including the military and armed militias, discontinue "widespread and systematic" violations of human rights. The recommendations, presented in the panel's concluding observations , also call on the Sudanese government to end immunities in Sudanese [...]
US District Judge Edward Nottingham Friday sentenced former Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio to six years in prison and ordered him to pay the maximum $19 million fine and forfeit of $52 million in assets obtained through insider trading. Nacchio, who was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in April, had faced a maximum [...]
The European Commission (EC) confirmed Friday that its Directorate General for Competition has sent a Statement of Objections (SO) to semiconductor manufacturing giant Intel , notifying the company that the EC believes it has abused its dominant position in the x86 architecture processor market to exclude its biggest rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) from the [...]
French magistrates have filed preliminary charges of "complicity in slanderous denunciations" against former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin , Villepin's lawyer said Friday. Villepin is accused of ordering a smear campaign against former political rival and current French President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as being responsible for several anonymous letters sent to a magistrate [...]
