Spanish police arrested former Argentine President Isabel Peron on Friday for her alleged involvement in the disappearance of political opponent Hector Aldo Fagetti Gallego in 1976. Argentine Federal Judge Raul Acosta issued the order for her arrest...
Texas District Judge Bruce Priddy granted a 14-day temporary restraining order on Thursday preventing anti-illegal immigrant measures from going into effect as scheduled on Friday in Farmers Branch, Texas. The ordinances, passed last month in the Dallas suburb [JURIST...
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed , one of the FBI's most wanted terror fugitives, was the target of two US air strikes in Somalia on Monday. Believed to be a member of al-Qaida and to have trained with...
Opening statements were made Tuesday in insurance lawsuits brought against State Farm Fire & Casualty brought by policyholders who were denied claims after Hurricane Katrina . Judge L.T. Senter Jr. of the US District for...
The White House said Monday that President Bush intends to nominate Zalmay Khalilzad , current US ambassador to Iraq, to serve as the next US ambassador to the UN . Rumors of the personnel change first...
The number of death sentences issued in 2006 reached the lowest level in 30 years, according to a 2006 year-end report issued by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) . The DPIC reported that...
The Catholic Diocese of Spokane has agreed to settle molestation claims against priests on Thursday for $48 million as part of a Chapter 11 reorganization plan . Victims and a federal bankruptcy judge must still approve...
The British Ministry of Defence said Thursday that nine soldiers videotaped beating Iraqi civilians in an incident in southern Iraq in 2004 will not face charges before military courts-martial. The Army Prosecuting Authority (APA) [official...
The Saudi Arabia Interior Ministry announced Tuesday that the government has freed eighteen former Guantanamo Bay detainees "after meeting necessary legal conditions." A spokesperson for the ministry stated that the government will continue to try...
The Russian Supreme Court Tuesday upheld a sentence of life imprisonment for Nurpashi Kulayev, the only terrorist survivor convicted in connection with the 2004 Beslan school siege . Kulayev filed the appeal [JURIST...
