Nepal's government on Tuesday annulled a media ordinance promulgated by King Gyanendra during his 15-month absolute rule to muzzle press that criticized his seizure of power in February 2005. The ordinance was criticized both in Nepal and internationally as it increased punishment of journalists and banned broadcast of informative programs from independent radios. The law [...]
The War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina began hearing its first genocide case Tuesday with the opening of the trial of 11 Bosnian Serbs charged for their role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre . The men charged with violating Article 171 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina include former [...]
Less than two months after New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer launched a $250 million lawsuit against H&R Block for fraudulently coaxing its customers into a retirement account plan that lost them money, Spitzer has amended the complaint claiming managers at the company ignored complaints from tax preparers about the misleading marketing of the Express [...]
An increasing number of small businesses are going private in order to avoid disproportionately higher costs of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) . Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Mike Enzi (R-WY) requested the report and said it showed that regulators must find ways [...]
Estonia on Tuesday became the fifteenth nation to ratify the European Constitution . The ratification is expected to have little effect on the charter after rejections of the document by France and the Netherlands last year brought debate about the charter to a standstill, despite its approval by 12 other European countries . A spokesman [...]
An FBI investigation into the activities of former CIA Executive Director and number-three agency official Kyle "Dusty" Foggo has intensified after Foggo's resignation Monday. The FBI probe is looking into whether Foggo took steps to improperly aid his high school friend Brent R. Wilkes' company ADCS in obtaining large CIA contracts. Former California Rep. Randy [...]
A spokesman for Thailand's Supreme Court said Tuesday that when new parliamentary elections are held, the country's highest courts will take a leading role in guaranteeing free and open elections. The announcement comes one day after the Constitutional Court of Thailand invalidated the results of the country's April 2 parliamentary elections . The court ruled [...]
Leading Tuesday's international brief, US President George W. Bush has announced that the United States will be asking the UN Security Council to accelerate Sudan's acceptance of UN troops to supplement the struggling African Union peacekeeping mission currently attempting to enforce a cease fire in the Darfur region . US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [...]
In the wake of the US government's decision to transfer five Chinese Uighur men from Guantanamo Bay to Albania, the Chinese government on Tuesday denounced the move as a violation of international law and demanded the return of the men to China. A Guantanamo Combatant Status Review Tribunal last year concluded that the five detainees [...]
In a reversal of judgment, the American Bar Association on Monday lowered its rating of White House aide and nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Brett Kavanaugh from "well qualified" to "qualified" . A majority of committee members recommended Kavanaugh as "well qualified" when his nomination was previously sent to [...]
