Belgrade prosecutors filed criminal charges against ten Serbs on Friday, accusing them of hiding indicted war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic from authorities, according to Belgrade radio station B92 . The charges say the accused aided Mladic with the knowledge that he is wanted for trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [...]
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) told reporters Friday that he anticipates easy passage of a bill renewing expiring sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) when it comes before the full Senate. Frist said the Senate will vote on the bill either by the end of June or after the month-long August break. [...]
Accusations against Guantanamo Bay detainees made in declassified documents contain basic factual errors and easily-refuted claims, the Boston Globe reported Friday. After reviewing declassified records, Globe journalists uncovered a number of simple mistakes that they said raised "questions about whether the US military has thoroughly investigated its cases against the roughly 400 inmates." Lawyers defending [...]
Indian officials have named three suspects in Tuesday's Mumbai train bombings that killed some 180 people in seven different coordinated blasts after authorities detained 350 people for questioning Thursday. The suspects – Sayyad Zabiuddin and Zulfeqar Fayyaz named Thursday and a third man known only as Rahil – were disclosed as a man claiming to [...]
Chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte was unceremoniously cut off at a Friday hearing for seven Bosnian Serbs indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre when she began a speech memorializing the massacre's 11th anniversary. Defense counsel objected to the speech, calling [...]
AP is reporting that a federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that struck down Nebraska's ban on same-sex marriage . A federal judge struck down the ban last May, ruling that it interferes with the rights of gay couples and also with those of foster parents, adopted children and people in many [...]
Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Thursday that the United Nations does not have the authority to compel Serbia on the status of Kosovo, and that the two parties need to reach a negotiated agreement on the territory. Churkin reportedly told the UN Security Council that he does not think the "international community has legal, [...]
Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , who officially lost the July 2 presidential election by .6 percent of the vote, on Thursday presented new evidence for his claims of extensive fraud, showing reporters television ads by several consumer product companies allegedly containing subliminal messages supporting the campaign of election winner Felipe Calderon [...]
US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday expressed skepticism at the idea of allowing television cameras into Supreme Court proceedings, saying that the justices are concerned that cameras could have an "adverse impact" on the Court's functioning. Roberts reminded advocates of televised Supreme Court sessions that the purpose of oral arguments is to [...]
The US Senate approved an amendment to a Homeland Security Appropriations Act 2007 Thursday that would prohibit the confiscation of legally owned guns during emergencies by a margin of 84-16 . Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) proposed the amendment in response to Hurricane Katrina . During and after the disaster emergency workers and others feared for [...]
