An Italian judge ruled Wednesday that the trial of 26 Americans and seven Italians involving the 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr by the CIA will proceed despite excluded evidence. Judge Oscar Magi...
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act , which aims at expanding the federal government's authority to prosecute acts of financial fraud. Obama said [press...
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday directed heads of executive departments and agencies that a sufficient legal basis is required to preempt state laws and that any legitimate state prerogatives should be fully considered, marking a...
Spain's Congress of Deputies , the lower house of the Spanish parliament, passed a non-binding resolution Tuesday aimed at limiting the exercise of universal jurisdiction over foreign nations in Spanish courts to those cases in which...
A US military judge on Tuesday granted a government motion to postpone hearings for Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi . Chief judge for military commissions Colonel James Pohl granted...
A council for the European Union (EU) on Tuesday said that Turkey should do more in terms of judicial reform, protection of citizens' rights, and various other efforts in order to further their request...
Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday on the limits of detaining terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay who are not actual members of terrorist...
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced plans for national fuel efficiency requirements. The policy is aimed at increasing fuel economy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and is projected to conserve 1.8 billion barrels of...
A Turkish court ruled on Monday that President Abdullah Gul should face trial for corruption allegations stemming from a previous misappropriation of treasury funds. The Sincan High Criminal Court in Ankara held that Gul should...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Black v. United States , appealing the fraud conviction of Canadian-born former media mogul Conrad Black . The Court will determine...
