Search Results for: 1999-07-07

The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children , with the HIV virus, was adjourned Thursday after a defense lawyer did not show up...

The prosecutor in the Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus, on Tuesday called for the death penalty in the case. The...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved the over-the-counter sale of the "morning after" or Plan B emergency contraceptive pill , to women 18 and over. A controversial provision of the...

A Malawian court Wednesday sentenced the former principal secretary in the country's Ministry of Education to two years in jail for "aiding and abetting the theft of public funds," making him the most senior civil servant to...

A judge in Ontario Thursday upheld a publication ban on the bail hearings for 17 men accused of a terror plot in Canada . The Associated Press, the New York Times, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,...

Cambodian genocide suspect Ek Choeun, also known as Ta Mok , died Thursday after having slipped into a coma in Phnom Penh earlier this week. He was 80. The former zone secretary and central committee...

Ek Choeun, also known as Ta Mok has slipped into a coma in a Phnom Penh hospital. His lawyer has told reporters he could die this week and is unlikely to survive until the Khmer Rouge...

The UN Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to adopt a compromise resolution on recent missile tests by North Korea (DPRK) directing it to stop the launches and calling on member states to impose...

Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said Thursday that the United Nations does not have the authority to compel Serbia on the status of Kosovo, and that the two parties need to reach a negotiated agreement on the...

Efrain Rios Montt , a former Guatemalan dictator, has called Spanish National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz's order for Montt's arrest last week unfounded, insisting that he did not know of any crimes against humanity committed by...