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PARIS A French lawyer is asking the Red Cross to check into reports that Saddam Hussein has begun a hunger strike. The attorney says he represents Saddam and that there are indications from Iraq that the former
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A French Muslim delegation in Iraq trying to win the release of two French journalists held hostage by Islamic militants said Thursday they had received proof the men were alive and well. The kidnappers have demanded that Paris rescind a law banning Muslim headscarves.
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Saddam Hussein has had his first meeting with a lawyer in preparation for his trial which will investigate charges of crimes against humanity.
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Saddam Hussein saw a lawyer hired by  his family on Thursday, his first contact with defense counsel  since U.S. soldiers captured him a year ago.
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NEW YORK: Ivory Coast, accusing France of human rights violations, demanded yesterday the formation of an international commission to investigate the purported shooting by French troops into a crowd of unarmed demonstrators in the city of Abidjan.
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MUHAMED al-Jundi, the Syrian driver of two French journalists taken hostage in Iraq in August, filed suit at a Paris court today alleging torture and mistreatment by the US army.
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A French engineering student who was  expelled from Syria on suspicion of trying to join Islamists  fighting U.S. forces in Iraq has been placed under formal  French judicial investigation, a judicial source said on  Friday.
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A military judge hearing evidence into alleged abuses at Abu Ghraib in Baghdad is demanding that prosecutors speed up their investigation.
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The International Red Cross is &quot;deeply concerned&quot; at the impact of the fighting in Iraq and the apparent failures by all sides to respect humanitarian laws.
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NEW YORK - Congressional investigators examining "a semitrailer truck load" of subpoenaed documents are trying to determine whether lax monitoring at a French bank that held more than $60 billion for the U.N. oil-for-food program facilitated illicit business deals by the former Iraqi government, officials told The Associated Press...
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ABU DIS, West Bank - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorie has formally requested that France publish the medical records of Yasser Arafat following his death last week, Qorie said on Tuesday.
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A UK lawyer is to bring a group action on behalf on thousands of people in Ivory Coast who claim they were injured by "toxic waste".
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Saddam Hussein saw a lawyer hired by his family on Thursday, his first contact with defense counsel since US soldiers captured him a year ago.
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Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some rights experts as unfair and fundamentally flawed.
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Two lawyers for U.N.  whistle-blowers urged the United Nations on Wednesday to  protect staffers who want to disclose corruption at the world  body, including the oil-for-food program for Iraq.
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Dramatic new details of France&#39;s secret dealings with Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime have emerged as part of a fresh corruption investigation into alleged illicit oil deals.
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France on Monday called for an international inquiry into a deadly blast in Beirut that claimed the life of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, President Jacques Chirac's office said in a statement.