Pojamarn Shinawatra, the wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra , on Tuesday entered a written plea of not guilty to corruption and fraud charges before the Thai Supreme Court. Pojamarn challenged the legitimacy...
Civil rights lawyer Jonathan Feinberg filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of 11 inmates challenging the "unconstitutional conditions" in which inmates are currently being held at four Philadelphia jails. US District Judge R. Barclay Surrick of the...
Top US Department of Defense officials said that there could be no acquittals at Guantanamo Bay military commissions and pressured prosecutors to bring charges against detainees, according to Monday testimony by former Guantanamo Bay chief military...
Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," was admitted to a US medical facility in Iraq on Sunday, the US military said Monday. Al-Majid had reportedly been on a...
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear three cases , including the consolidated cases of US v. Eurodif (07-1059) and USEC v. Eurodif (07-1078) [docket; cert....
The US Department of the Treasury issued proposed regulations Monday designed to implement the Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 . In January, US President George W. Bush issued...
The US Supreme Court Monday denied without comment petitions for certiorari filed by 10 death row inmates seeking to have their executions blocked. Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled ...
The US military said Monday it plans to release Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein from custody Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, the deputy commanding general for detainee operations, Multi-National ForceIraq [official...
Myanmar is completely ill-prepared to hold a national constitutional referendum as part of a democratic political transition, UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro told Reuters in an interview Monday. Myanmar's 45-member Referendum Holding...
Leftist legislators continued demonstrations Monday in both houses of the Mexican Congress to protest an energy reform bill sent by Mexican President Felipe Calderon to the Mexican Senate last week. Members...
