Search Results for: 2006-03-07

Former Bangladeshi prime minister Khaleda Zia was granted bail on Sunday after surrendering to the court in Dhaka. Zia, the leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), had been voluntarily confined to her office since January...

Former Israeli prime minster Ehud Olmert was convicted Monday by the Jerusalem District Court of fraud and breach of trust in connection to payments received from American businessman Morris Talansky. According to Talansky's previous...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 6-3 in Young v. United Parcel Service that a plaintiff may satisfy the requirement to show a prima facie case of discrimination under the Pregnancy Discrimination...

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday urged renewed efforts to arrest militia leader and accused war criminal Joseph Kony . The statement came after the announcement...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday upheld the conviction and 14-year prison sentence of former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo . Lubanga...

Since the military prison at Guantanamo Bay was first opened in January 2002, hunger strikes have been a frequent device used by the detainees to protest the conditions of the detention center and their general detainment. In 2005, one of...

Cuba leased the southern portion of Guantanamo Bay to the US on February 23, 1903, as part of the Cuban-American Treaty that allowed the US military to construct a permanent naval base on the site. The base has been in...

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeals on Thursday ordered the release of taped phone conversations about corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma . Zuma had applied to prevent the tapes from being released while the...

A judge for Colorado's Adams County District Court on Wednesday struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban as unconstitutional but immediately stayed his ruling. Judge C Scott Crabtree ruled that Amendment 43 of Colorado's state...

In 2006 following two high profile affirmative action US Supreme Court decisions dealing with affirmative action at the University of Michigan, a public institution, Michigan voters passed Proposal Two , a state constitutional ban on affirmative action in public employment,...