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Britain to probe alleged Iraq troop abuse

Baghdad :: Iraq | 1 day ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Britain's Ministry of Defense says it is launching an independent inquiry into allegations that soldiers tortured and killed Iraqi prisoners. The inquiry, it said, comes as a result of criticism by the High Court over an earlier investigation by the Royal...

Tags: Iraqi, Iraq, Baghdad, Baha Mousa, Year of birth missing, Public inquiry, War Conflict, Politics, Western Asia, Royal Military Police, Fertile Crescent, Levant

Letters: UK vacuum over children in custody

London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the UN's adoption of the convention on the rights of the child . But 18 years after it was ratified by the UK, thousands of children in prison are still waiting for it to become a reality.

Tags: Liam McManus, United Kingdom, London, Inquest, Public inquiry, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Civil procedure, Death, English law, Social Issues

Bureaucrats and other critics often face Tories' wrath

Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 4 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

H ell hath no wrath like a Conservative government scorned — just ask the string of bureaucrats, advocates and citizens whose reputations have felt the fury. Diplomat Richard Colvin is the latest to face a backlash from Tory benches.

Tags: Dene Moore/Canadian Press, Richard Colvin, Afghanistan, NDP, Canada, diplomat richard, Peter MacKay, Kandahar, public inquiry, Taliban, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, Human rights abuses, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Politics, Conservative Party, Tory, Dona Cadman, Chuck Cadman, Stephen Harper, International Democrat Union, Anne Bayefsky, Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel Palestine and the United Nations, Hamid Karzai, Pashtun people, Iranian Plateau, Gordon O'Connor, Foreign policy of the Harper government, Human rights in Afghanistan, Maxime Bernier, Asadullah Khalid, Islamic terrorism

‘Sound' practices not used in awarding Quebec transport contract: report

Toronto :: Canada | 4 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

T he Quebec Ministry of Transportation failed to “use sound management practices” when it allocated a more than half-million dollar paving contract to a company partly owned by a former Liberal minister, according to provincial auditor Renaud Lachance's...

Tags: Treasury Board, Quebec Ministry of Transportation, public tender, Mr. Whissell, public inquiry, Canada, Toronto

UK 'must help forge strong European foreign policy'

London :: United Kingdom | 28 days ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Britain must take a lead in developing a strong European foreign policy if it is to retain its influence around the world, Foreign Secretary David Miliband warned today. The UK would lose out internationally if it tried to oppose the EU foreign policy...

Tags: Lockerbie, David Miliband, Mr Miliband, public inquiry, lockerbie bombing, foreign policy

Hillier Calls for Public Inquiry on eHealth Scandal

Perth :: Australia | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Over a billion dollars had been wasted Hillier Calls for Public Inquiry on eHealth Scandal   By Randy Hillier    Friday, October 16, 2009 (Perth) – Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington is demanding that the McGuinty liberals have...

Tags: ehealth scandal, public inquiry

Hudak calls for public inquiry into eHealth

Toronto :: Canada | about 1 month ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Ontario's Progressive Conservatives are calling for a public inquiry into the province's eHealth scandal. Three people are in hospital with gunshot wounds after an early morning shooting incident near Jane Street and Highway 401. The loonie continued...

Tags: public inquiry, emergency landing, CTV News Today, Ontario, swine flu

UK 'made u-turn on Lockerbie for oil'

London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

LONDON: The British government decided two years ago it was "in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom" to make the Lockerbie bomber eligible for return to Libya, The Sunday Times newspaper reported. Leaked letters show Justice Secretary Jack...

Tags: Lockerbie, Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi, Abdel Baset Ali Megrahi, Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, public inquiry, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi

Lockerbie bomber calls for a public inquiry

Tripoli :: Libya | 2 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The Lockerbie bomber is calling for a public inquiry into the atrocity for which he was convicted of killing 270 people. Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, who has always protested his innocence, says it is 'unfair' to the victims' families not to have an inquiry...

Tags: Lockerbie, Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi, lockerbie bomber, Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, public inquiry, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, Scotland

UK opens Iraq detainee death probe

London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Britain has launched a public inquiry into the death of an Iraqi civilian and the alleged mistreatment of nine others at the hands of British soldiers in southern Iraq. Baha Mousa, a 26-year-old hotel clerk, was beaten and died 24 hours after he and six...

Tags: Iraqi, Baha Mousa, public inquiry, British, iraqis prisoners, iraqis detainees, military custody, Basra, soldiers screamed

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