Recent Updates
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China Promises to Control Greenhouse Gas
Legal World 06/03/2007China promised Monday to better control emissions of greenhouse gases, unveiling a new national program to combat global warming, but rejected mandatory caps on emissions as unfair to countries still trying to catch up with the developed West. The pr...
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Guantanamo detainee dead in suspected suicide
Legal World 05/31/2007[##_1L|1052303396.jpg|width="120" height="84" alt=""|_##]A Saudi Arabian detainee held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay died Wednesday afternoon in what military officials characterized as an apparent suicide. The officials did not identif...
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Disgraced former drug chief sentenced to death
Legal World 05/29/2007CHINA'S former drug regulator has received the death penalty — against a backdrop of growing international and domestic concern over the safety of food, pharmaceutical and other products made in China.Zheng Xiaoyu, head of the State Food and Drug Adm...
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Leftists defend Mexico City abortion law
Legal World 05/29/2007Mexico's largest leftist party vowed Monday to defend a landmark Mexico City abortion law with street protests and political pressure in the face of attempts by the conservative federal government to overturn it in court.The Democratic Revolution Par...
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Blair calls for stronger UK terror laws
Legal World 05/28/2007British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday in an op-ed published in the Sunday Times that the country has chosen to protect the civil liberties of foreign nationals over national security and therefore could not blame the government for last week'...
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Libya court clears foreign AIDS medics in slander trial
Legal World 05/27/2007A Libyan court acquitted six foreign medics of criminal defamation Sunday. The five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor, previously convicted of knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients with the HIV virus and sentenced to death, faced def...
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UN rights investigator says US committing violations
Legal World 05/27/2007[##_1L|1099248929.jpg|width="100" height="125" alt=""|_##]An investigator for the UN Human Rights Council said Friday that the US has committed human rights violations in its interrogations of terror suspects and by putting questionable restrictions ...
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US-Mexico border fence may violate boundary treaty
Legal World 05/25/2007The International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) said Wednesday that a controversial 700-mile fence along the US-Mexican border may violate the 1970 Boundary Treaty, which resolved all pending boundary differences between the United States and ...
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Prodi said EU constitution compromise unacceptable
Legal World 05/23/2007Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Tuesday that the European Union should avoid any radical changes to the draft European Constitution, telling European Parliament members that a compromise on the treaty is not an adequate solution for Europe. ...
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ECJ legal adviser upholds rights of trade unions
Legal World 05/23/2007Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice upheld the rights of trade unions in two opinions Wednesday. In Laval v. Partneri (C-341/05) [opinion; press release, PDF in French], Mengozzi advised the court to allow trade unions to...
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Guantanamo Bay Detainee Transferred to Australia
Legal World 05/21/2007Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks was transferred to a maximum security prison near his hometown of Adelaide South Australia Sunday to serve the remainder of his nine-month prison sentence. In March, a US military commission at Guantanamo Ba...
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US seeks extradition of Muslim imprisoned in UK
Legal World 05/18/2007Lawyers for the US government argued for the extradition of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri in a hearing before a London court Thursday. Al-Masri is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Britain for urging his followers to kill Jew...