Ali Alatas, former Indonesian foreign minister, went to Myanmar Thursday as a special envoy of the UN to help push for the release of jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi . Alatas was appointed to the position in 2003, but this is his first visit to the country. Myanmar's military leaders have not allowed [...]
The trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resumed Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia after a summer recess, with Milosevic calling ethnic Albanian witnesses from Kosovo to testify. The prosecution contends that Yugoslav and Serbian forces were ordered by Milosevic to expel tens of thousands of Kosovo Albanians during the [...]
The Iraqi Islamic Party , Iraq's largest Sunni political group, on Wednesday heavily criticized the committee drafting a new Iraq constitution and said that the same major disputes blocking a draft last week remain to be worked out. The group said the committee was biased and incompetent in its approach to resolve differences over federalism [...]
Israeli security soldiers on Thursday entered the religious settlement of Kfar Darom and surrounded a synagogue filled with hundreds of young pullout opponents as the soldiers removed screaming residents from nearby homes and a religious school. One soldier refused to take part in the operation and had to be dragged away; the first such mutiny [...]
A US military jury on Wednesday convicted Pfc. Willie Brand of assault, maltreatment, false official swearing and maiming. Brand faces up to 16 years in military prison for beating one of two Afghan detainees who later died at Bagram Control Point near Kabul. The jury acquitted him of related charges involving the second prisoner. Brand [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and a Fellow at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy, says that the new federal bankruptcy legislation signed into law this past Spring weeds out fraud and abuse while preserving a "fresh start" for debtors… After eight years of [...]
US Magistrate Judge Craig Shaffer delayed the civil class action fraud case against former Qwest Communications chief executive Joe Nacchio and other former phone company executives until September 30 to eliminate possible interference with a parallel federal criminal investigation. US Attorney William Leone requested the delay , and argued that permitting civil discovery in the [...]
The UN has formally accused Carina Perelli, head of the UN's Electoral Assistance Division , with harassing her staff. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric did not offer specifics, but it is believed that the accusations stem from a four-month internal investigation initiated after several staff members accused Perelli of fostering an abusive work environment full of [...]
A US State Department spokesman warned Wednesday that if the Iraqi constitutional committee seeks a further extension of the deadline for drafting Iraq's constitution , such an extension would likely not be politically feasible. Iraq's constitutional committee Monday secured a seven-day extension , but there is no clear indication that Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni negotiators [...]
NATO General Steven Schook told reporters Wednesday that he believes that allied forces are very close to capturing former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic . Often referred to as one of the world's most wanted men, Karadzic is accused of leading the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Croats in July 1995, and has [...]
