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London police express regret over shooting of bomb suspect, defend use of force
London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair expressed regret Sunday over the killing of a man police mistakenly thought connected to July 21 London bombings . Blair stated that the shooting of Brazilian citizen Jean Charles de Menezes wa (More) |
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London police say shot man not bomber; Brazilian government protests
London's Metropolitan Police Service announced in a statement Saturday that a man originally said to be a suicide bomber shot dead by plainclothes police at point blank range at the Stockwell Tube station in London Friday was not connected wit (More) |
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African Union submits UN Security Council expansion plan
The African Union introduced its own plan for expansion of the UN Security Council on Monday, despite ongoing negotiations that would give Africa permanent representation on the council and opposition by the US, Russia, and China to the so-called (More) |
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US calls for opposition to G-4 Security Council expansion plan
The US Tuesday urged the UN General Assembly to vote against a draft resolution by the so-called G-4 to expand the UN Security Council by adding six additional permanent seats and four non-permanent seats to the current 15 members. The debate over (More) |
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G-4 submits proposal to change UN Security Council framework
In an anticipated move Wednesday, Germany, Japan, Brazil and India, also known as the G-4, submitted their UN Security Council restructuring plan to the UN General Assembly. The resolution proposes changing the current UN Security Council structu (More) |
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Corporations and securities brief ~ SEC to pursue civil suit against Scrushy
Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) spokesman said today that the agency still plans to pursue a $785 million civil suit against former HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard Scrushy despi (More) |
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Africa seeks permanent seats on UN Security Council
African leaders Tuesday approved a resolution at the fifth African Union Summit seeking two permanent seats on the expanding UN Security Council . The AU is calling for the number of Council seats be increased from 15 to 26, with six of the new mem (More) |
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UN child abuse monitor says many children have fewer rights than "cats or dogs"
The head of a major UN study on worldwide child abuse opened a conference of government and human rights officials from 52 countries in Europe and Central Asia taking place in Slovenia Tuesday by observing that in many countries, children are &qu (More) |
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G-4 nations want UN Security Council expansion vote in July
Four countries seeking permanent representation on the UN Security Council - Japan, Brazil, India, and Germany - said Wednesday at a foreign ministry meeting in Brussels that they would request a July vote on their Security Council reform resoluti (More) |
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US indicts two in connection with Brazil killing of environmentalist American nun
A grand jury in Washington, DC has indicted two men for the February 12 killing of Dorothy Stang , an American nun who was working in Brazil as an environmentalist. A landowner allegedly offered the two $20,000 for the killing, and faces separate ch (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
