An court in India on Monday rendered the final verdicts in connection to the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed more than 250 people and injured more than 700. The six convictions handed down by Judge P.D. Kode Monday bring the total in the case to 100 – a figure that public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam described [...]
A court in Santiago granted former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet bail from house arrest Monday as he remained hospitalized following a severe heart attack a day earlier. One of Pinochet's doctors, describing his condition today as "life-threatening" but stable, said he was awake and communicative after an emergency angioplasty was performed to clear the artery [...]
The US Supreme Court heard two hours of oral arguments Monday in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 , 05-908, and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education , 05-915. Both cases present the question of whether the court's 2003 decisions in affirmative action cases involving the University of Michigan, [...]
Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, who is overseeing the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein , on Monday agreed to a prosecution request to conclude the witness phase of the trial, and adjourned until Wednesday with just one prosecution witness left to testify. The prosecution has presented more that 70 witnesses, including several US forensic experts describing [...]
A US Navy sailor pleaded guilty Monday at a court-martial hearing in Norfolk, Virginia, to espionage, desertion, failing to properly safeguard and store classified information, copying classified information, communicating classified information to a person not entitled to receive it, and stealing and destroying a government computer. Petty Officer 3rd Class Ariel Weinmann , accused of [...]
Defense lawyers for alleged terrorist Jose Padilla have indicated they will use a recent video, taken of Padilla as he was escorted by soldiers from solitary confinement to a dentist's appointment, as evidence that charges against Padilla should be dismissed due to "outrageous government conduct." The video, obtained by the New York Times, shows Padilla [...]
Wire services are reporting that US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has resigned, effective at the end of his recess appointment. President Bush named Bolton to the position on an interim basis last year through a recess appointment that will expire when the new congressional session begins in January. A September vote in [...]
US Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has said she plans to introduce legislation in the Senate that would prevent the US military from using cluster bombs in civilian areas by cutting off federal funding for such weapons until the Defense Department "articulate a new policy that will minimize civilian death and suffering from these weapons." In [...]
Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have called for the text of Kyrgyzstan's new constitution, adopted in November, to made publicly available after an unexplained three-week delay. Kyrgyz laws are usually published soon after they are passed. The new constitution generally reallocates power away from the president towards the parliament by limiting presidential power to dissolve the parliament, [...]
A Nepali government minister indicated Sunday that the interim constitution, drafted in August , will be signed into law within a few days. The interim draft encompassing 173 articles is designed to replace the current constitution until a new representative body is elected and drafts a permanent constitution. The draft must be approved by each [...]
