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Brazil president facing renewed impeachment efforts
Two Brazilian lawyers filed a new petition on Wednesday in a renewed attempt to impeach President Dilma Rousseff , alleging she forged accounts in 2014. On Monday a parliamentary commission found there was no proof [TeleSUR report] that Rousseff, he (More) |
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Amnesty: Indonesia death row inmates tortured, denied counsel
Death row inmates in Indonesia have been denied the right to counsel, beaten and coerced into confessions, according to an Amnesty International (AI) report published Thursday. The country has executed 14 prisoners since President Joko Widodo to (More) |
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Brazil top court puts presidential impeachment efforts on hold
Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an injunction freezing opposition party efforts to start impeachment deliberations against President Dilma Rousseff . Despite the injunction, lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha said that he would continue (More) |
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Brazil court rules against president on government accounting practices
Brazil's Federal Accounts Court (TCU) on Wednesday determined that President Dilma Rousseff's government accounting practices were illegal. Rousseff's administration allegedly took out unauthorized loan money from state banks to cover budget shor (More) |
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Brazil ex-president to be questioned in Petrobras case
Brazil's Federal Supreme Court ruled Friday that officials investigating corruption allegations at Petrobras , a state-run oil company, may question former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a witness. In ruling on the motion filed September 1 (More) |
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Former Brazil Worker's Party treasurer sentenced for Petrobras corruption link
A Brazil court on Monday sentenced former treasurer of the country's governing Worker's Party Joao Vaccari Neto to 15 years and four months in jail for charges stemming from his connection to the Petrobras corruption scandal. Vaccari was found gui (More) |
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US judge dismisses suit filed by ex-Ukraine PM
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko , who alleged that Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash perpetuated a racketeering (More) |
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Brazil Supreme Court bans corporate funding of political candidates
The Federal Supreme Court of Brazil on Thursday banned corporate entities from providing funding to political candidates in the future. The court found that the large role corporations played in campaign funding was unconstitutional and compromise (More) |
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HRW challenges UK surveillance
Human Rights Watch (HRW) , along with three anonymous individuals, filed a complaint Monday alleging that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is violating their rights by sharing communications with the US National Security Agency (NS (More) |
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US government drops espionage charges against US physics professor
The US Attorney's Office on Friday dismissed all charges against the former chairman of Temple University's physics department, Xi Xiaoxing , for allegedly sharing American-made schematics of a device used in superconductor research to Chinese scie (More) |
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Pay a virtual visit to The King Center in Atlanta.
