Egypt judges demand independent judiciary
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About 300 pro-reform judges staged a sit-in outside a downtown Cairo courthouse Thursday to demand the independence of Egypt&#039;s judiciary as thousands of riot police watched.
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Israel's Supreme Court must weigh the country's security concerns against Palestinians' commercial livelihood.
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A Ukrainian Supreme Court judge listens to an appeal by an opposition representative.
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A Saudi judge has postponed a hearing for three reform activists after a rare display of public protest in the kingdom by spectators in the courtroom.
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DAMASCUS: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Syrian counterpart Bashar Al Assad linked UN calls for Syrian troops to leave Lebanon to their own demands for Israeli troops to leave Arab lands.
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Pakistani rights activists called on   the government on Sunday to suspend Islamic laws on rape and   adultery until controversy over them is settled.
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Egypt has asked the United States to hand  over five detainees held at the U.S. base at Guantanamo in  Cuba, the state news agency MENA said on Thursday.
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Palestinian officials appealed Thursday for international monitors to help with their presidential elections and urged Israel&#39;s unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip be folded into a stalled international peace plan.
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Gamal Mubarak, the son of Egypt's president, is qualified on his own to replace his father, but being related to the current leader could be an "obstacle" to ruling the Arab world's largest country, Egypt's prime minister said.
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Authorities have cracked down on opposition groups recently during a time of increasingly active efforts to stop President Hosni Mubarak from extending his 24-year rule in a referendum later this year.
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Egypt asked the international police organization to arrest three Israelis it accuses of being part of a spy ring, a judicial official said Monday.
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A Saudi judge on Monday postponed the trial of three democratic reform advocates after their supporters, in a rare show of public dissent, demonstrated for access
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Some Israelis would like Egypt to take ongoing responsibility for the Palestinian territory.
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Lawyers for terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui on Tuesday asked all the judges on a Southern appeals court to consider whether Moussaoui can have direct access to al-Qaida witnesses and whether the government can seek his execution.
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Pakistani lawyers began a nationwide boycott of courts Monday to pressure President Pervez Musharraf to reinstate senior judges he sacked under a state of emergency more than three months ago.
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A glance at incidents or comments involving Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia that prompted calls for him to step aside in individual Supreme Court cases.
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BAGHDAD -- The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial told the former president yesterday that ``you were not a dictator," sparking Kurdish demands that he be replaced.