In case you did not know, May 1 is Law Day! Initiated by the American Bar Association (ABA), established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and made official by Congress in 1961, Law Day was seen as a counterweight to May Day which celebrates the workers of the world within socialist and communist countries. For Law [...]
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It is indefensible to ignore the debate on international criminal law, all the more when the pretext for doing so involves relying upon the misery of war crimes victims as a means of perpetuating a branch of the legal profession. Humanity improves by examining vexed subjects until the best ideas win. To stifle debate is [...]
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California Gov. Jerry Brown has approved legislation that will allocate $24 million to hire special agents that will track down and seize guns from 20,000 Californians who have been disqualified from owning them. Thousands of Californians have made legal purchases of handguns or assault rifles, but have since become ineligible from owning them due to [...]
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The accused Boston Marathon bombers originally planned to target a Fourth of July celebration in Boston, one of the suspects said according to ABC News sources. The sources said the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told authorities after his capture that he and his older brother, Tamerlan, only changed their plan and hit the marathon because [...]
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(RFE/RL) — A court in northwestern Pakistan has postponed its decision on the appeal of a doctor who allegedly helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden. Qamar Nadeen, a lawyer for Dr. Shakil Afridi, told RFE/RL on May 2 that the appeals court will now announce its decision on June 13. Another lawyer for the [...]
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The Iranian Foreign Ministry has confirmed the arrest of senior Iranian diplomat Bagher Asadi in Tehran. On Thursday May 2, the Iranian national broadcaster announced that a knowledgeable source in the Foreign Ministry has confirmed the arrest of an Iranian diplomat. The report says: “After Reuters reported the arrest of a prominent Iranian diplomat and [...]
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By Jemal Oumar French forces captured a French citizen in Mali suspected of joining al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). “He was arrested by our troop close to Timbuktu. He was obviously fighting among jihadist groups,” French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told Europe1 on Wednesday (May 1st). “The jihadist was not in combat position [...]
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By Anis Bajrektarevic How to draw the line between the recent and still unsettled EU crisis and Asia’s success story? Well, it might be easier than it seems: Neither Europe nor Asia has any alternative. The difference is that Europe well knows there is no alternative – and therefore is multilateral. Asia thinks it has [...]
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On April 27 Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was hospitalized after having a mini-stroke without serious complications, the Algerian news agency reported. The Algerian President had a brief blockage of a blood vessel, a transient ischemic attack, around noon, Rachid Bougherbal, the director of the national center of sports medicine, told the state news agency. “His [...]
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By Joharah Baker Oppression can do strange things to people. When it is oppression in the form of a decades-long military occupation, it means the occupied people run the risk of becoming one-dimensional in the sense that the occupation is what defines them and shapes their past, present and future. For the Palestinians, this is [...]
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U.S. officials are investigating a report of human trafficking at a suburban Washington home owned by Saudi Arabia. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Brandon Montgomery says agents removed two possible victims of domestic servitude from a Saudi diplomat’s home Tuesday in McLean, Virginia. The State Department says two women from the Philippines who currently [...]
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Australia’s 2013 defence white paper is a very paradoxical document. Although there were very few surprises in the purchases and future spending outlook, the spirit of the paper appears to signal the country’s abandonment of its self view as a “middle power” into what could be argued as “strategic withdraw”. This is particularly evident with [...]
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“Self-radicalisation” has been touted as the trigger for the 2013 Boston Marathon attack albeit investigators have yet to fully discount the bombers’ links to a terrorist organisation. The challenge of preventing and pre-empting the radicalised—whether in an individual or group setting, from launching attacks can be mitigated by diminishing the appeal of terrorism. A slight [...]
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Rev. Ian Weathrall, the last British member of the Church of North India’s Delhi Brotherhood, has died. He was 91. The priest, who breathed his last Tuesday, joined the Brotherhood, a community of priests, in 1951 and lived in their Delhi house until his death after a long battle against cancer. The Brotherhood, founded in [...]
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The Security Council today voted unanimously to establish the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia, to be known as UNSOM and to be based in the country’s capital, Mogadishu, beginning on 3 June for an initial period of 12 months. Stressing the need for “effectively coordinated international support for Somalia’s Federal Government,” the Council structured [...]
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By Kristy Siegfried South Africa attracts the largest number of asylum seekers in the world, but grants refugee status to very few of them, ranking only thirty-sixth in the world for the size of its refugee population, which the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) puts at about 58,000. The Department of Home Affairs, the government ministry [...]
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Prevention may be better than a cure, but for the authorities in Arab cities and towns, natural disasters up to now have been largely about coping with them after they have taken place. “We react to disasters without any planning; we just go for the response, and you know that without any planning you can’t [...]
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In my recent discussion with Murhaf Jouejati on PBS Newshour, I argued that one reason the US should avoid taking the lead in Syria is that the conflict is sectarian and resembles that of Iraq, where the US had little success. Murhaf took issue with my analysis arguing that Syria is not like Iraq. He [...]
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On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders is releasing an updated list of 39 Predators of Freedom of Information – presidents, politicians, religious leaders, militias and criminal organizations that censor, imprison, kidnap, torture and kill journalists and other news providers. Powerful, dangerous and violent, these predators consider themselves above the law. “These predators of [...]
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On April 4, 2013, Paraguay’s departing president, Dr. Federico Franco Gómez, met with the leadership of one of Washington’s lobbying firms, the Livingston Group (L.L.C.), headed by former Colorado Senator Wayne Allard (R). During the discussion, President Franco shared his views on his country’s “business-friendly environment and its bright future.” The central themes of the [...]
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