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UN Climate Summit: Leaders from 80 Nations Attend
Legal World 09/24/2007[##_1L|1012713765.jpg|width="100" height="125" alt=""|_##]U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon this morning will host heads-of-state at the agency's world headquarters here for a meeting on climate change. Organizers are hoping the gathering will help ...
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Blackwater Shooting Crisis Rallies Baghdad
Legal World 09/24/2007An escalating controversy over the alleged shooting of Iraqi civilians by a U.S. security firm has triggered the strongest challenge yet to legal immunity for some foreigners in Iraq, while providing a rare rallying cry for the country's polarized fa...
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Japan's Fukuda Set To Become Prime Minister
Legal World 09/22/2007After the haplessness of the Abe era, Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party has chosen a safe pair of hands to be its new leader, and by extension Japan's next prime minister. Yasuo Fukuda, 71, was chosen Sunday to lead the party, winning 330 of...
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Fujimori Returns to Peru to Face Trial
Legal World 09/22/2007Former President Alberto Fujimori returned to Peru on Saturday to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled the country seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal.The pla...
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Witness tells of carnage in Baghdad shooting
Legal World 09/22/2007An Iraqi traffic policeman told Sunday how Blackwater security guards caused carnage when they opened fire on civilians in Baghdad, as a senior officer probing the shooting insisted it was unprovoked.One week after the gunbattle that killed 10 civili...
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Court urges Sudan war crimes arrest
Legal World 09/21/2007[##_1L|1193409563.jpg|width="100" height="125" alt=""|_##]The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has urged world leaders to "break their silence" and press the Sudanese government to arrest one of its ministers for alleged war...
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Chile's top court rules to extradite Fujimori
Legal World 09/21/2007Chile's Supreme Court said on Friday it had ruled to extradite Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori to face charges of embezzlement and human rights abuses during the 1990s.Alberto Chaigneau, president of the courtroom where the extradition case ...
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Canada court action presses Ottawa to obey Kyoto
Legal World 09/20/2007[##_1L|1348647817.jpg|width="120" height="100" alt=""|_##]A legal action launched yesterday urges the Federal Court of Canada to force the federal government to live up to its obligations to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. T...
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EU court dismisses Microsoft antitrust appeal
Legal World 09/19/2007Microsoft's appeal of the record €497 million fine imposed on it by EU regulators was comprehensively rejected by Europe's second-highest court Monday.In a landmark ruling, the European Union's Court of First Instance backed the European Commission's...
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2 in UK in court on terrorist charges
Legal World 09/19/2007Two people appeared in court Wednesday after being charged with terrorist offenses.Raingzieb Ahmed, 32, charged with three counts, spoke only to confirm his name and age during a five-minute hearing at London's City of Westminster Magistrates Court.A...
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Russia warns against Iran war
Legal World 09/18/2007[##_1L|1332680339.jpg|width="100" height="125" alt=""|_##]Russia expressed worry Tuesday over the possibility of war with Iran as French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner pressed for tougher sanctions against the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme....
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Iraq Investigates Foreign Security Firms
Legal World 09/18/2007The Iraqi government said Tuesday it would review the status of foreign security firms after a fatal shooting of civilians involving Blackwater USA, while radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called for a ban on all the companies of "the occupiers."...