A South African court on Monday acquitted former Deputy President Jacob Zuma on rape charges, finding that testimony from Zuma's accuser was not credible and that her allegations were false. Zuma had denied the charges , as well as separate corruption charges , saying that they were part of a conspiracy to discredit him politically [...]
President George W. Bush has nominated Gen. Michael V. Hayden , to replace Porter Goss , who resigned unexpectedly Friday. Hayden currently serves as the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence and several members of Congress have already come out against the nomination , saying that it is inappropriate for a military general to head [...]
The UK High Court ruled Monday that Apple Computer did not breach a 1991 trademark agreement with Apple Corps , the record label owned by the Beatles and their families, when the computer company began promoting music products. The Beatles sued the computer company , arguing that the online iTunes music store violated the agreement, [...]
Leading Monday's international brief, a Sudanese government official has denied reports that Sudan would accept UN peacekeepers in the Darfur region as inaccurate and unfounded. Sudan has continually rejected all attempts to deploy UN peacekeepers, saying that they feared Western imperialism and would allow only African Union peacekeepers. Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jamal Muhammad Ibrahim [...]
Lawyers for five Kuwaitis formerly detained at Guantanamo told a Kuwait criminal court Sunday that the Kuwaiti courts lack any foundation for convicting their clients of having links with al Qaeda . Their lawyers questioned the court’s jurisdiction over persons accused of committing crimes abroad and the legitimacy of evidence collected by US interrogators at [...]
In an effort to restore his image and keep his job, Iraqi interior minister Bayan Jabor announced Sunday that a general serving in the ministry has been arrested in connection with kidnappings and death squads . Seventeen others arrested with the general are facing similar accusations. Jabor said a terror group had been found in [...]
Leaders of Nepal's Maoist rebel insurgency on Sunday called for an interim constitution to be enacted before a special assembly gathers to draft a new charter. The Maoists and a seven-party alliance of opposition political parties joined forces in a number of pro-democracy protests last month which led to King Gyanedra reinstating parliament at the [...]
Serbian police launched a full scale search on Sunday for Bosnian war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic but were unable to arrest the former Bosnian Serb army commander wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on genocide charges. The European Union called off membership talks with Serbia last week over the country's failure [...]
US President George W. Bush said Sunday that closing the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is a possibility in the future depending on the US Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld , which will determine the legality of military trials for Guantanamo detainees. The Court's decision on whether military commissions for foreign terror [...]
Israeli police on Sunday evicted a group of Jewish settlers squatting in a Palestinian house in the West Bank city of Hebron, a region where Jewish settlement is no longer allowed. Three settler families left peacefully, but police scuffled with two dozen teenagers who initially refused to leave the house. 19 settlers were arrested. This [...]
