Recent Updates
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World court finds Serbia innocent of genocide charge
Legal World 02/25/2007SERBIA did not commit genocide against Bosnia during the 1992-5 war, the United Nation's highest court has ruled in a landmark case - but it said that the country had violated its responsibility to prevent genocide. Bosnia had asked the International...
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International Court To Rule On Yugoslav Genocide Case
Legal World 02/25/2007The International Criminal Court in The Hague is scheduled to rule Monday on the genocide suit filed in 1993 by Bosnia-Herzegovina against Yugoslavia. Basing its charges on the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide, Bosnia brought the case befor...
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US rejects international call to ban cluster munitions
Legal World 02/25/2007[##_1L|1306360825.jpg|width="140" height="84" alt=""|_##]The United States Friday rejected an international call to ban the use of cluster munitions by 2008. State Department spokesperson Sean McCormack told reporters at a daily press briefing that t...
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S Korea to retake military command
Legal World 02/24/2007[##_1L|1087675256.jpg|width="130" height="89" alt=""|_##]The United States will hand back wartime operational control of South Korea's armed forces in 2012. The deal reached between Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, and Kim Jang Soo, his Korean...
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Survivors await UN court's Bosnian war ruling
Legal World 02/24/2007Survivors and relatives of victims of the Srebrinica massacre are on their way to The Hague for a ruling on a demand to hold Serbia accountable for mass killings during the Bosnian War. The case, brought by Bosnia, has been described as one of the mo...
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Egypt cleric alleges torture after 2003 CIA rendition
Legal World 02/23/2007Speaking publicly for the first time, Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr said Thursday that he was tortured by Egyptian officials during his four-year detention in Egypt following an alleged 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition from Mila...
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UN nuclear chief: Iran has refused to halt enrichment
Legal World 02/22/2007[##_1L|1335339550.jpg|width="130" height="154" alt=""|_##]Iran has expanded its uranium enrichment program instead of complying with a UN Security Council ultimatum to freeze it, the UN nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday. The finding clears the pa...
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Britain's Prince Harry going to Iraq
Legal World 02/22/2007[##_1L|1016723617.jpg|width="120" height="120" alt=""|_##]Prince Harry will be sent to Iraq, Britain's Ministry of Defence said Thursday. He will join his regiment, the Blues and Royals, in Iraq as part of a long-planned rotation of troops. He will b...
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Zimbabwe police ban political rallies in capital
Legal World 02/22/2007Police imposed a three-month ban on political rallies and protests Wednesday in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare after a political rally held Sunday by opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Despite a court order instructing police no...
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7 more Guantanamo Bay detainees to Saudi Arabia
Legal World 02/21/2007Seven Saudis formerly detained at Guantanamo Bay arrived in Saudi Arabia after US authorities granted their release earlier this week. The Saudi Press Agency reported their return, and noted that Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz "express...
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North & South Korea to Resume Meetings
Legal World 02/15/2007The North Korean nuclear weapons deal reached this week in Beijing has provided momentum for the North and South Korea to resume high-level contacts. The two Koreas now plan a high-level exchange in the North Korean capital within weeks. VOA's Kurt A...
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Putin criticizes US foreign policy
Legal World 02/11/2007Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday criticized what he called the "dangerous" use of force by the United States in the face of international law in a hard-hitting speech at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy. Speaking to a forum of o...