Fired Ecuador justices are barred from offices
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QUITO, Ecuador -- Ecuadorean police barred Supreme Court judges from returning to their offices yesterday after the judges tried to defy a decision by Congress to fire them for bias against President Lucio Gutierrez.
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The country's chief justice is restored to office, in the latest blow to Pakistan's embattled President
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CHILE&#39;S Supreme Court today lifted the immunity from prosecution of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who faces criminal charges over the disappearance of political opponents during Operation Condor.
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SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile's Supreme Court stripped General Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution yesterday, paving the way for possible trial of the former dictator on charges of human rights abuses.
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Ecuador's opposition parties fail in efforts to begin impeachment proceedings against President Lucio Gutierrez.
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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 federal judge in New York dismissed a human rights suit yesterday against 35 major corporations that did business in South Africa under apartheid, dealing a blow to rights lawyers who have
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A Spanish judge on Friday barred two Basque pro-independence parties from running in general elections next month, suspending their activities for three years.
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Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, was stripped of presidential immunity by Chile&#39;s highest court in a ruling that may lead to charges that he took part in killings during his regime.
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Chileâs former President General Augusto Pinochet has been stripped of his legal immunity following a ruling by the countryâs Supreme Court.
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The Constitutional Court on Thursday ruled the government&#39;s plan to relocate the administrative capital as unconstitutional. Eight of the court&#39;s nine judges ruled the plan as unconstitutional.
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Sacked Ecuadorean legislators clash with police, amid an escalating power struggle with the president.
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In a a blow to the countryâs two main broadcasters, the Mexican Supreme Court overwhelmingly voted Thursday to declare parts of a new media law unconstitutional.
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The country's chief justice, whose firing sparked nationwide protests, is restored to office, in the latest blow to Pakistan's embattled president
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Two Mexican federal police chiefs have been fired and handed over to prosecutors after a mob lynched three of their agents. Three anti-drug agents were beaten and burned alive on the outskirts of the capital
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Pakistan's president has removed the Islamic nation's chief justice for "misuse of authority," state media reported yesterday. Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry has taken a tough line against government misdeeds and human rights abuses. Opposition groups, lawyers, and former judges expressed surprise over the dismissal, which underlined the power of President Pervez Musharraf over the judiciary.
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QUITO, Ecuador  - Tens of thousands of protesterstook to the streets of Quito on Wednesday to protest what theycall the heavy-handed tactics of President Lucio Gutierrez anddemanded that he reverse his firing of the country's SupremeCourt.