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Iraqi draft oil law to offer oil transparency
Legal World 01/21/2007An Iraqi cabinet-level committee proposed a draft law Friday that would allow the national government in Iraq to control oil revenues. Negotiations concerning the draft law have been a source of tension in Iraq for months as most Kurds and many Shiit...
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Mexico extradites cartel kingpins to US
Legal World 01/20/2007Mexico extradited drug kingpins Osiel Cardenas and Hector "El Guero" Palma and thirteen other major traffickers to the United States Friday as part of an effort by new Mexican president Felipe Calderon to follow through on a promise made by former Pr...
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UN SG Ban concerned over stalled Hariri tribunal
Legal World 01/18/2007[##_1L|1321714338.jpg|width="107" height="107" alt=""|_##]UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that he is concerned about the status of ongoing discussions between the UN and Lebanon on the proposed UN-supported international tribunal to t...
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Iraqi leaders agree on draft oil law
Legal World 01/18/2007Iraqi officials have agreed a final draft of a law that sets rules for sharing Iraq’s oil wealth and aims to bring in billions of dollars of foreign investment to rebuild the mainstay of the economy. But crucially, international oil firms waiting f...
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UN marks soaring Iraq death toll
Legal World 01/16/2007[##_1L|1300395851.jpg|width="130" height="82" alt=""|_##]U.N. officials in Baghdad say more than 34,000 Iraqis perished in violent incidents last year, far more than the government had reported. U.N. experts say it is urgent to strengthen the p...
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10 Nazi SS members convicted in Italy
Legal World 01/13/2007An Italian military court Saturday convicted 10 former SS soldiers and acquitted 7 others in the 1944 killing of more than 700 people in Marzabotto, a small town in nothern Iraly. The slaughter, which took place south of Bologna, is considered the wo...
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Spain arrests Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron
Legal World 01/12/2007[##_1L|1073034341.jpg|width="87" height="112" alt=""|_##]Spanish police arrested former Argentine President Isabel Peron on Friday for her alleged involvement in the disappearance of political opponent Hector Aldo Fagetti Gallego in 1976. Argentine F...
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China court upholds sentence of rights activist
Legal World 01/12/2007A Chinese court rejected the final appeal Friday of Chen Guangcheng, a blind Chinese human rights legal activist, who was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for damaging property and "organizing a mob to disturb traffic." The Intermed...
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Guantanamo prison draws protests worldwide
Legal World 01/11/2007Protests against the US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay Cuba continued Thursday as the facility marked its fifth anniversary. In Cuba itself, peace activists, including former detainee Asif Iqbal, and Gold Star Families for Peac...
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Iraq to Review Hussein’s Execution
Legal World 01/07/2007US and Iraqi officials disagreed strongly over legal procedures and interpretations in the run-up to the December 30 hanging of Saddam Hussein, the New York Times reported Sunday. Disagreements were reported very soon after the hanging, but the lates...
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Sudan joins UN in peacekeepers sex crimes probe
Legal World 01/05/2007The government of Southern Sudan, an autonomous region in Sudan, will join the United Nations in probing alleged sex crimes committed by international peacekeepers against at least twenty Sudanese children in Juba, according to a statement from the S...
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Chile drops tax charges against Pinochet's widow
Legal World 01/04/2007[##_1L|1063688093.jpg|width="160" height="120" alt=""|_##]A Chilean appeals court has dropped tax evasion charges against the widow and two children of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet. In a decision Wednesday, the Santiago Court of A...