The Hague Tribunal has rejected Radovan Karadžić’s appeal against its initial decision to reject his motion to exclude one of the judges in his trial.
The decision to turn down Karadžić’s initial motion for the exclusion of Judge Michele Picard on the basis of her alleged partiality in the case, was taken on May 18 by South Korean Judge O-Gon Kwon.
Using specially developed computer displays and an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) machine to scan the brain, neuroscientists have pinpointed where and how the brain processes 3-D motion.
The researchers found that 3-D motion processing occurs in an area in the brain—located just behind the left and right ears—long thought to only be responsible for processing [...]
The debate over health care reform is entering a late stage with increasingly bitter partisan differences over very divisive issues.
Radovan Karadžić will appeal a decision by the Hague Tribunal trial chamber to turn down his earlier motion for the charges against him to be dropped. The former Bosnian Serb leader’s motion was based on his claim that he was granted immunity in 1996 in an agreement signed with U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke.
You may recall that a federal court gave Saudi Arabian royals sued by the families of the 9/11 victims immunity from being sued. Not because there wasn’t any evidence of Saudi complicity in 9/11, but because it would interfere with relations with Saud…
Microsoft plans on opening its Windows Marketplace to mobile applications from outside developers, as it seeks a competitive advantage against Apple, Research In Motion, Palm and others currently competing in the mobile-application field. Windows Mobile 6.5 will offer new features such as a full Web browser with built-in Flash support and on-screen icons designed to be manipulated with a finger.
– Microsoft
plans to open its Windows Marketplace to mobile-application developers at the
end of July 2009, as it seeks to gain traction against competitors such as Apple
and Research In Motion in the ever-more-contentious mobile app space.
The announcement comes as Microsoft prepares to gear up …
Japan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Taro Aso has survived a no-confidence motion in the lower house of parliament.
But a non-binding censure motion has been adopted in the opposition-dominated upper house – heaping more pressure on Mr Aso.
Following his party’s loss of control of the Tokyo municipal assembly on Sunday, Mr Aso dissolved parliament and called a general election for August.
Defeat would end the LDP’s almost continuous rule for the past 50 years.
The prime minister is deeply unpopular, and there have been calls from within his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for Mr Aso to stand down as leader before the poll.
DPJ’s hopes
Japan’s opposition put forward the motions to pile humiliation on Taro Aso, according to the BBC’s correspondent in Tokyo, Roland Buerk.
The leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, told parliament that the huge sums being spent trying to boost the recession-wracked economy looked like an attempt to buy electoral support.
The lower house of parliament, which is controlled by the LDP, easily voted down the motion of no confidence by 333 to 139.
But a similar motion was passed in the opposition-dominated upper house a few hours later.
Recent newspaper opinion polls have suggested that the DPJ is well-placed to make considerable gains in the August election.
Such polls also put Mr Hatoyama ahead of Mr Aso as the people’s choice for prime minister.
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Japan’s ruling bloc voted down a no-confidence motion against embattled Prime Minister Taro Aso on Tuesday. But, chaos deepened within his party as fears grew of a historic defeat in a national election next month.
A group of 100 NGOs has called on President Boris Tadić to support a motion to mark July 11 as a Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Srebrenica. NGO representatives gathered in Pioneer Park, near the Presidency, to read out a letter to Tadić, stating that acknowledgment of the victims of “the greatest crime of crimes“ should constitute the first step towards building a common remembrance encompassing all the victims of war crimes perpetrated in the former Yugoslavia.
