'The proceedings in the Dujail trial were fundamentally unfair'.
Iraq's High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein to death by hanging.
Twelve people, including two girls, were injured in running battles between protesters and police lasting several hours.
New Delhi observed that there should be no 'needless cruelty' even if it is a result of a judicial process.
The world body's headquarters was closed on Saturday and the statement of Qazi was posted on its website.
The UN Security Council has passed three resolutions to fortify Iraq's sovereignty, scrapping nuclear sanctions imposed during the Saddam Hussein reign and ending the controversial oil-for-food programme of the 1990s
The US and the UK may give this option if weapons inspectors report that the Iraqi dictator is refusing to disarm fully, a report said.
Saddam was sentenced to death for killing 148 Shias in 1982.
Hussein and seven others are facing charges of crimes against humanity for the 1982 massacre of Shiite villagers.
P V Bakthavatchalam will be part of the international panel of lawyers being constituted to defend Saddam Hussein.
A fatwa has been issued by a Jaipur Mufti against the film 'Le Gaya Saddam' which deals with Muslim divorce system following protests.
The former UN chief weapons inspector believes Saddam destroyed all his weapons of mass destruction in 1993.
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This contradicts the earlier US claim that the former Iraqi president was hand-in-glove with Osama bin Laden.
"I would have no hesitation. That's my work. That's my chosen pursuit -- to protect rights. His rights need protecting," Ramsey Clark said.
"The execution of the death sentence will be a form of judicial assassination," the CPI(M) said, urging all sections of the people to protest the death sentence.
According to the report, post war findings intimate Saddam Hussein "as distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime".
He issued a presidential decree to this effect on Friday.
The tribunal was set up in December 2003 to try members of the former regime for crimes and other violations.
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'Legal custody and physical custody can be two separate things," he added,' Bremer said.
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But the US plans to keep over 5,000 prisoners deemed a threat to the coalition forces.
The men with guns tend to know little finance, and establishing such a conspiracy then involves leakage of information, which is also dangerous, Ajay Shah points out.
Western diplomats said they would like to hand over the control of prisons as early as possible and that would include the transfer of custody of Saddam Hussain and his top officials.
This video establishes that the meeting of those accused of the Umesh Pal murder case took place in the jail and it will be probed if the conspiracy for the same hatched inside the district jail, a senior police officer said.
'Saddam is looking for his honour, revenge and prestige. If need be he will die like Hitler in a bunker,' says Lt Gen [retd] Kirpal Singh Randhawa, who trained Iraqi officers in the 1970s.
An agent linked to disgraced Pakistani scientist A Q Khan had offered Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1990 that they could build an atomic bomb for him in three years under a US $ 150 million "nuclear package deal," according to a new book.
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'... it must network its battlefield units quickly, securely, robustly,' notes Ajai Shukla.
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday said the country needs a strong government but not of 'one party with brute majority', and batted for a coalition rule.
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Normalcy returned to the city, recently renamed as 'Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar', even as the government deployed five companies of the State Reserve Police Force as a precaution.
The charge sheet, which was filed against 20 PFI members, further mentions that "these 'Service Team' members were given arms as well attack training and surveillance techniques training in order to identify, list out and to mount surveillance on individuals and leaders belonging to certain communities and groups".
Hakki Pikkis are a semi-nomadic tribe, traditionally of bird catchers and hunters, from Karnataka. Their knowledge of the forest and traditional medicine is extensive and is prized by the Sudanese community.
India's historical focus on its continental borders has overshadowed its maritime ambitions, but that is changing quickly, notes Ajai Shukla.
'I can only say that it was a revenge killing. We have seen everything from inside our houses. We ran into our dwellings on hearing a mob approaching Sonu's house and hurling bombs. After that, I don't know anything'
The cross-country foot march stayed in the news almost right through, mostly for the barbs between the BJP and the Congress and occasionally for other reasons, including infighting in the opposition party.
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