LIMA, Peru — Peru’s government abused its authority by barring paroled U.S. activist Lori Berenson and her 31-month-old son from leaving the country to spend the holidays in New York City with her family, her lawyer charged Saturday. “Administratively, you can’t block a court order,” Anibal Apari said after Berenson told The Associated Press that she and her son Salvador were prevented from boarding a flight Friday night despite being granted permission in court. Read full article > >

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A woman who filed a sexual harassment complaint against Herman Cain in the 1990s will not tell her side of the story in public, her lawyer tells reporters.

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It’s lunchtime in McPherson Square in downtown Washington, and a young couple who met at the ongoing Occupy D.C. protests are cuddling on an air mattress and talking about corporate greed. Kathy Elliso, 22, and Steve Hartwell, 23, have started dating, so to speak, in the 10 days since the Occupy D.C. demonstrators set up their tents and their “Tax the rich” placards in this park along the lawyer-and-lobbyist-dense K Street corridor. They are joining protests that have spread to cities around the country since the Occupy Wall Street movement began last month in New York . Read full article > >

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MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota businessman Kenneth Dahlberg, a World War II ace and an inadvertent figure in the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency, has died at age 94, his lawyer said Wednesday. Dahlberg died Tuesday at his Deephaven home of natural causes, Dahlberg attorney and family friend Warren Mack told The Associated Press. Dahlberg had broken his hip about a year ago and had pneumonia, but his hip had healed and his health had been “great,” Mack said. Read full article > >

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TEHRAN, Iran – The release of two American hikers jailed in Iran was delayed Sunday because one of the judges whose signature is required on the paperwork is on vacation, the lawyer representing the two men said. The lawyer, Masoud Shafiei, said when he attempted to get the two signatures required for the $1 million bail deal for Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, he was told one of the judges needed to sign off on the agreement was on vacation, and to return at a later date. Read full article > >

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Jack Kevorkian, the man known as “Doctor Death” for helping the terminally ill end their lives, has died in the US aged of 83, his lawyer says.

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The shooting spree in Yuma, Arizona, apparently had its roots in a contentious divorce. The gunman, Carey Dyess, 73, appears to have shot his former wife, her lawyer, and three others before killing himself. Dyess was married in 2002, but the marriage…

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Indicted genocidal war criminal Ratko Mladic is back in court for his extradition to the Hague after his lawyer called off the hearing yesterday. Mladic’s lawyer cancelled the hearing yesterday when he said Mladic was unable to communicate. The lawyer…

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Hosni Mubarak, call your lawyer… again. The former Egyptian leader will be charged in the deaths of protesters who took to the country’s streets to demonstrate against and ultimately topple his regime, according to sources inside the Egyptian…

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Mubarak to Be Tried for Deaths

IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn will make a new plea for bail on Thursday morning over sexual assault charges, his lawyer says.

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Strauss-Kahn ‘in new bail plea’

The maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault will testify against him, though her lawyer says she is “scared.” Jeffrey Shapiro said, “There was nothing consensual about what took place in that hotel room.” He also says that the…

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At the center of an international sex scandal, the lawyer for the woman who accused International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault said she is “traumatized” by the whole incident. “There is no way in which there is any…

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The hotel maid who says she was sexually assaulted by IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is enduring an “extraordinary” trauma, her lawyer says.

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Protests of the jail conditions of Pfc. Bradley Manning have produced good results, his lawyer says. Manning, who is accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, was being held in solitary confinement and forced to sleep naked without bedding…

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Manning’s Jail Conditions Improve

Thirty-eight Zimbabweans arrested last month for discussing an Egypt-style uprising are freed but eight remain in custody, their lawyer says.

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‘Egypt video’ Zimbabweans freed