Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted on Monday on the ground of corruption charges against him related to his attempt to sell the US Senate seat held by Barack Obama before he resigned to become President.
To fight drugs cartels in Central America, U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged more foreign aid.
In the deaths of three participants in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony, self help guru James Ray has been convicted of negligent homicide, but he was not found guilty of manslaughter charges.
The US Supreme Court in Wal-Mart v. Dukes ruled that a group of women seeking to recover damages from Wal-Mart failed to meet the requirements for class certification. The case, a Title VII gender discrimination class action lawsuit estimated to include more than 1.5 million women, was filed in 2001 by female Wal-Mart employees who contend that Wal-Mart’s nationwide policies result in lower pay for women than men in comparable positions and longer waits for management promotions than men.
Sri Lanka’s justice ministry has received a summons issued by a US federal court for President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The summons filed is linked to three civil cases under the Hague Convention by relatives of Tamil victims of alleged extra-judicial killings. The alleged killings took place during the Sri Lankan civil war. The petitioners are claiming financial damages under the US Torture Victims Protection Act.
On Friday, 17th of June 2011, the congress was urged by a group of U.S. mayors to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and transmitted money spent to support those conflicts to domestic interests.
Defense secretary of U.S Robert Gates said Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s long time second in command and now its top leader after Osama Bin Laden was killed by US forces last month does not have the “peculiar charisma” and operational experience of bin Laden. He also added that Al Qaeda’s new chief Ayman al-Zawahiri lacks Osama bin Laden’s stature among Islamists worldwide but the United States is just as determined to hunt him down and kill him as it did his predecessor, US officials said on Thursday. Gates said that al Qaeda remains a threat despite its loss of bin Laden, who was considered the driving force behind the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear that Zawahiri remained high on the US list of hunted militants even after commandos killed bin Laden in a raid on his Pakistan hide-out 45 days ago.
Civil rights campaigners were sparked as the British government has been accused of spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In the latest video release by WikiLeaks, it is been claimed that in order to keep track of people visiting him, three cameras have been erected outside the entrance of his temporary home in Ellingham Hall, Norfolk.