Despite a Supreme Court of Canada order that Rwandan Leon Mugesera should be deported amidst accusations of inciting genocide in his home country, Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler said Friday that Mugesera will not be extradited unless Canada receives binding promises that he would not face the death penalty if convicted. Rwanda had indicated willingness [...]
Following up on previous Pentagon denials of abuse , US Army Surgeon General Lieutenant General Kevin C. Kiley, M.D. Thursday presented a "comprehensive assessment" of actions and procedures by medical personnel at Guantanamo and in Iraq and Afghanistan, telling reporters at a Pentagon news briefing : …the majority of medical personnel interviewed did not observe [...]
Eighty-nine member nations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted Friday to adopt recommended changes to toughen standards of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material at a special conference in Vienna. The treaty governs the transport, domestic storage and peaceful use of nuclear material; the new rules will go into effect [...]
Sven Jaschan, a 19-year-old German, was given a 21-month suspended sentence Friday after being convicted by a German court of computer sabotage and illegally altering data for authoring the Sasser computer worm . Jaschan escaped jail time because he was only 17 when he wrote the worm. Earlier, he had admitted in court to creating [...]
US District Judge William Stafford rejected an injunction against Florida's new parental consent abortion law Thursday. According to the judge, opponents of the state's Parental Notice of Abortion Act , which took effect June 30, failed to show they had a good chance of winning a constitutional case against the legislation. Pro-choice advocates filed the [...]
Attorneys for US Army Pfc. Lynndie England announced Thursday she will plead not guilty in her upcoming court-martial. The trial will reopen later this summer with the Army maintaining most of the charges from the original trial in which Judge Col. James Pohl threw out her guilty plea . Earlier Thursday Pohl had refused to [...]
London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said Friday that the confirmed death toll from the Thursday bomb attacks in the British capital had risen to "at least 50" and would go up as more bodies were recovered from damaged cars in the subway system, but that it was not likely to go beyond 100. [...]
Florida State Attorney Bernie McCabe announced Thursday that he had found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing with respect to the collapse of Terri Schiavo 15 years ago. Following Schiavo's autopsy last month, Govenor Jeb Bush asked McCabe to investigate what he suspected as an unexplained 40 to 70 minute gap between her collapse and her [...]
A spokesman for NATO said Thursday that multinational stabilization forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina had arrested Aleksandar Karadzic, son of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic who is sought for genocide charges in the July 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims in eastern Bosnia. Aleksandar is suspected of knowing where his father and other war criminals are hiding [...]
Speaking at the annual conference of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) in London Thursday, US Congressman Michael Oxley (R-OH) said that the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation was "rushed" and includes "excessive" corporate reforms. The legislation sponsored in 2002 by Oxley and Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) came in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom financial scandals [...]
