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Gen. Pervez Musharraf easily won the election for president on Saturday, but an opposition boycott and pending hearings in the Supreme Court, which still has to decide on his eligibility to run for election in uniform, left him with an incomplete victory. The vote, by national and provincial assemblies, ended up as a one-man race […]

A 63-year-old Baptist deacon was killed by police after he shot five people in a law office, killing two of them, reports the Associated Press. Anger over a divorce settlement may have been behind the shooting spree which lead to gunfire being exchanged with police, authorities said Friday. A special tactical unit used explosives to

An amnesty for former Pakistani prime minister and other politicians facing corruption cases has been announced today, reports the New York Times. This clears the way for a long-negotiated power-sharing agreement that would allow him to stand for re-election Saturday and for Ms. Bhutto to return for parliamentary elections at the end of the year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Parts of President Bush’s eavesdropping campaign have been labelled illegal by a former top lawyer of his administration, reports the Associated Press. There were aspects of the Terrorist Surveillance Program “that I could not find the legal support for,” Jack Goldsmith, the former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel,

Madeleine McCann’s parents are preparing for a long legal fight and have hired a top Portuguese legal team, reports The Press Association. Gerry and Kate McCann have told friends that they are prepared for a long battle to clear their names after being declared “arguidos”, or official suspects, in the case. The couple have hired

Figures have revealed that Scotland’s legal aid bill increased to more than £150m last year. This is an increase on 2% from the previous year and brought spending up to the second highest ever level, reports BBC News. Criminal cases accounted for nearly two thirds of the total. The cost of civil legal aid increased

It is called the Supreme Court, but this year in key cases the institution might just as well be called the supreme realm of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Such is the power of the centrist swing voter among eight other justices who often split 4 to 4 on the most contentious disputes in the nation. After

Apple’s legal counsel, Donald Rosenberg, has been hired as Qualcomm’s new legal skipper reports the Union-Herald Tribune Rosenberg spent just 10 months at Apple, stepping in at the iPod and computer company after predecessor Nancy Heinen left during the fallout from investigations of a stock option backdating scandal. Before Apple, Rosenberg spent 30 years at

Shareholders are becoming more and more concerned about the ability of the company’s directors to improve Sky City’s performance without a permanent chief executive, reports the Sunday Star Times. Sky City currently has just five directors. One of those, Elmar Toime, has been acting chief executive since the departure of CEO Evan Davies in June.