Prosecutors filed papers Thursday in federal court recommending a reduced prison sentence for former lobbyist Jack Abramoff for giving "substantial assistance" in another Washington corruption case. The "nature, extent and value" of his cooperation will be revealed in future filings, according to prosecutors. Abramoff was sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison last March for [...]
Sudan suspended the work of 52 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in Darfur Thursday after allegations that they were not complying with regulations. The Sudanese government said the organizations would be able to resume work after talks with the government's Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC). United Nations Under-Secretary-General John Holmes , scheduled to visit Darfur this week, [...]
British police arrested three men on Thursday in connection with the London transit bombings on July 7, 2005 that killed 56 people, including the bombers, and injured more than 700 others. Two suspects were detained at Manchester Airport while catching a plane to Pakistan, and the third was arrested at his home. According to police, [...]
Egypt's four largest opposition parties – the Tagammu, Karama, Wafd and Nasserist parties – announced Thursday they will boycott next week's referendum on controversial constitutional amendments proposed last year by President Hosni Mubarak and recently approved by lawmakers . The announcement comes one day after Egyptian opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood announced it too planned [...]
Spanish prosecutors on Wednesday dropped all charges against Arnaldo Otegi , the leader of Batasuna , which is alleged to be a front for the illegal Basque separatist militants ETA . Otegi had been charged with glorifying terrorism for praising an ETA member who killed herself while preparing explosives. The Spanish Supreme Court in 2005 [...]
The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday authorized subpoenas for former White House Counsel Harriet Miers , Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove , and several DOJ aides to testify and provide documents to the committee regarding the recent US Attorney firing scandal . Last week, the Committee subpoenaed five other DOJ aides [...]
A federal judge on Thursday granted a permanent injunction against enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) , a federal law that imposes civil and criminal penalties on website operators for making sexually explicit materials available to minors over the Internet and require adult websites to verify viewer age with a credit card number [...]
Northern Ireland's publicly-owned City of Derry Airport and Amnesty International (AI) are discussing the implementation of an official policy barring the United States and its allies from using the airport for controversial rendition flights, AI announced Wednesday. If passed by the Derry City Council , the policy would be a first for Europe. AI originally [...]
A French court Thursday cleared Charlie-Hebdo magazine and director Philippe Val of defamation in last year's republication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad originally published in a Danish newspaper in September 2005. The court ruled that the defendants did not intend to purposely offend Muslims and so did not slander or defame anyone. Had Val [...]
Argentine federal Judge Alberto Suarez Araujo ruled Wednesday that former president Reynaldo Bignone will face criminal charges for his alleged role in disappearances and human rights abuses during Argentina's 1976-83 "Dirty War" . According Araujo's spokesperson, Bignone faces prosecution for the illegal arrest, torture and killing of dissidents at secret detention centers in Buenos Aires. [...]
