Search Results for: 2006-10-17

Iraq National Reconciliation and Dialogue Plan, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, June 25, 2006 .English text...

A Syrian writer and his son have been charged with insulting government employees and will be tried before a military tribunal, the Syrian National Organization for Human Rights said Tuesday, as a crackdown on dissent in Syria continues. Journalist...

A former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration testified in a deposition that the agency postponed a decision to allow over-the-counter sales of Plan B emergency contraceptives while it considered how...

The Delaware Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's ruling declaring Walt Disney Co. directors and two former executives not liable for the approval of a $130 million severance package for...

In the wake of Thursday's release by UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith of a disclosure statement outlining his actions in rendering advice on the legality of the Iraq war to the government of Prime...

At least 127 democracy activists held by the military junta in Myanmar have died from "torture or ill-treatment," according to a report released Tuesday by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) . The report by...

Testimony ended Monday in the trial of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling as the defense team rested their case and the prosecution called only three rebuttal witnesses. Lay and Skilling...

Leading Friday's environmental law news, Magistrate Judge Robert Collings of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency must release internal documents relating to...

Changes to the controversial French labor law establishing the First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) are expected to be announced Monday after an early-morning meeting between President Jacques Chirac and Prime...

Special Court for Sierra Leone, summary of war crimes charges against ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor at his first appearance before the SCSL in Freetown, April 3, 2006.Text:Charles Ghankay Taylor, the former President of Liberia, was indicted on 7 March 2003...