Madonna said she hopes the Malawian girl she wants to adopt and the boy she already adopted "will one day return to Malawi and help the people of their country." A Malawian judge this month rejected the American pop star’s petition to adopt 3-year-old Chifundo “Mercy” James, but her lawyer has filed an appeal.
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U.S. journalist detained in Iran to seek bail
A trial date has not been set for an American journalist facing espionage charges in Iran, and her lawyer will argue Saturday that she be released on bail until the case goes to trial. Roxana Saberi was charged with spying, with Iranian authorities saying she has confessed to doing so
Iran charges U.S. journalist with spying
Iranian authorities have charged detained American journalist Roxana Saberi with espionage, Iran’s Press TV reported. Iran’s deputy prosecutor for security issues, Hassan Haddad, said Saberi had confessed to having engaged in espionage activities.
Mumbai attack lawyer under threat
Indian attorney Anjali Waghmare says she has faced protests, threats and her home has been attacked because she has agreed to represent the lone surviving suspect of the Mumbai terror attacks. Waghmare was appointed by a Mumbai court to represent Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, who told the court he can not afford to pay for a lawyer
Spanish judge accuses Bush officials over torture
A senior Spanish judge has ordered prosecutors to investigate whether key Bush aides should be charged with crimes over the Guantanamo Bay detention center, a lawyer said Sunday. Investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzon has passed a 98-page complaint to prosecutors that accuses former Attorney General Alberto R.
Lower costs lure U.S. patients abroad for treatment
"I was a walking time bomb. I knew I had to get on that plane if I wanted to be around to see my grandkids." Sandra Giustina is a 61-year-old uninsured American
Lawyer stabbed 38 times; husband held
Slain attorney Chiquita Tate was such a believer in the legal system that she had a tattoo of Lady Justice on her back, college friend T. J. Crawford recalled
Mumbai attack suspect a Pakistan national
The main suspect captured alive in last year’s Mumbai terror attacks declared Monday that he is a Pakistani national, prosecutors said. The Indian government has long said that the three-day siege in November was carried out by Lakshar-e-Tayyiba, a Pakistan-based outfit
Israeli Soldiers Allege Indiscriminate Killing in Gaza
Whenever concerns are expressed over civilian casualties inflicted in Israeli military operations, the country’s generals and political leaders are quick to insist that theirs is the “world’s most moral army.” That claim was challenged by human rights observers over Israel’s recent offensive in Gaza, although such criticism is reflexively dismissed by Israel as driven by pro-Palestinian bias.
What’s Behind Dick Cheney’s New Attacks?
Dick Cheney has never had any qualms about defending the Bush Administration war on terror or criticizing Democrats’ alternative approaches to national security.