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Russian Supreme Court vs Jehovah's Witnesses It was announced today at Bethel that on December 8, the Russian Supreme Court will have a hearing on the following charges of Jehovah's Witnesses. Publications that are found to be of "extremist" content:...

Six men could be extradited to Crete to face prosecution for a violent attack on a British footballer. Robert Hughes, 27 at the time of the assault, was left in a coma after being beaten up in Malia in June...

I think some form of ayin tahat ayin is appropriate in the case of Nazi war criminals, as Slavoj Zizek suggests. To my understanding, Zizek suggests we have no right to forgive the perpetrators of these acts on behalf of...

In March 2009 the Obama administration gave itself one year to “shift the momentum” in the war—meaning, to stop losing. Three months later, Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked for McKiernan’s resignation...In a population-centric counterinsurgency campaign, the chief priority is...

The family’s youngest daughter Natálka suffered horrific burns in the attack, and was not expected to survive. So there were scenes of joy on Wednesday when the two-year-old was released from hospital after eight months of intensive treatment.

If the Wild West, replete with gun slinging at dawn, bar room brawls and moustachioed, Stetson wearing cowboys, fills you with excitement then Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption may be exactly what you’re looking for. Recreating the American West at the...

Gabi Ashkenazi, has a monthly salary of NIS 68,060; a major general makes NIS 48,265 a month; and a brigadier general makes NIS 39,340 a month...While questions are occasionally raised as to the disparity between these sums, it appears that...

Statutory rape convictions similar to Roman Polanski's typically result in sentences at least four times longer today than the 90-day punishment a judge favored before the director fled the U.S...Polanski's arrest in Switzerland on an international fugitive warrant -- and...

If Labour's class war calls bankers' bluff, bring it on It is more Lennon than Lenin, but this new approach demanding morality for the financial sector could hit home Class war politics, in my history book, is serious, even life-and-death...

The case against Joseph Shook may hinge on a ragged bundle of duct tape and a red shovel. Prosecutors rested their case Thursday, following a day devoted to their hardest evidence in the homicide trial. Witnesses linked Shook to a...