The Iraqi government on Monday announced that a nephew of Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to life in prison for providing funding to the insurgency in the country. The verdict was the first against a member...
The Israeli Justice Ministry has decided not to charge police for shootings that killed 13 Israeli Arabs during violent protests in October 2000. In closing all investigations stemming from the incident, the Police Investigations Unit on Monday...
The UN General Assembly High-level Plenary Friday evening approved a watered-down 35-page package of modest institutional reforms and global policy initiatives in the culminating moment of the biggest summit ...
Newspaper publishing giant Hollinger International Inc. announced Friday that it had reached a $20 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by advertisers over claims that it inflated circulation figures for the Chicago Sun-Times [media...
A US district judge Friday ordered mediation in a civil suit brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy , raising the possibility of settlement in the $800...
Police in Nepal Friday arrested 87 journalists protesting restrictions placed on the media since King Gyanendra seized power in February. Police also arrested 200 other protestors at a pro-democracy demonstration in Kathmandu...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia announced Friday that it had taken Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Sredoje Lukic into custody almost seven years after he was originally indicted....
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called on Iraq to make its constitutional process more transparent and inclusive. Such an approach would create a broader consensus leading up to the planned...
The UN on Friday evacuated 11 Uzbek refugees to London after they fled to Kyrgyzstan following deadly riots that erupted in Andijan last spring. The 11 refugees were accused of terrorism by the Uzbekistan...
The New Jersey Republican Party has called on NJ Attorney General Peter Harvey to investigate widespread election irregularities it said it discovered in its own four-month probe. According to Republican State Committee Chairman Tom Wilson,...
