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EU and Cuba Renew Relations

The BBC recently reported that the EU and Cuba have formally renewed ties that were severed 5 years ago following "a mass arrest of dissidents." Cuba will now receive 2 million Euros of aid for the hurricanes that swept over the island this summer; aid will increase to 30 million Euros next...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 10-26-2008
Finders keepers? Spain claims sunken treasure

NPR reported this morning on Spain's battle to reclaim the treasure from a sunken Spanish vessel recovered in international waters in the Atlantic Ocean by Odyssey Marine Exploration of Tampa, FL. The 19th century shipwreck contained some 17 tons in silver coins, cuff links and other personal items...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 05-19-2008
Myanmar

Cyclone Nargis has thrust Myanmar into the public spotlight, as pressure increases to allow foreign aid to help cyclone victims. In February, Myanmar had announced its intention to hold a democratic referendum on a draft constitution this month, and to hold democratic elections in 2010. Immediately prior...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 05-08-2008
The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal

NPR reported this morning that Tariq Aziz, former Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein, begins trial today for the execution of forty-two food merchants in 1992. Aziz, 72, has been in prison for over 5 years and is challenging the charges. In the Anfal Campaign Trial , Gen. Ali Hassan Majeed,...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 04-29-2008
Special Tribunal for Lebanon

On February 14, 2005, Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 other were killed in a bomb attack in Beirut. The act was immediately condemned as a "terrorist bombing" in a formal statement by the President of the United Nations Security Council. Shortly thereafter, the U.N. appointed an international...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 04-10-2008
Foreign, Comparative, Transnational, and International Legal Research

Don't know where to find the criminal code for the Ivory Coast? Or jurisprudence from the Constitutional Court of South Africa? Or a case decided by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights? Try the F/I Research Resources page. This page will link you to primary and secondary sources to help you...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 03-25-2008

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