The Illinois Department of Finance and Professional Regulation (DFPR) on Wednesday granted doctors a 90-day grace period for enforcement of the state's parental notification requirement for minors obtaining abortions. The grace period came at the...
War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Wednesday sued the Serbian government for allegedly kidnapping him prior to announcing his arrest last year. The former Bosnian Serb leader claims that Serbian authorities officially...
The UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights released a report Tuesday calling for an independent inquiry into allegations regarding government complicity in the torture of UK terrorism suspects in Pakistan and elsewhere. Maintaining that complicity...
UK Attorney General Janet Scotland pledged to improve Britain's policies on combating fraud and corruption in an interview published Monday in the Financial Times . Scotland's comments came in response to accusations that the country's...
An Iranian official confirmed Tuesday the arrest of three US citizens who entered the country on Saturday from Iraq's Kuridish region, according to a state media report . The Americans, who possessed Iraqi and Syrian visas, have been...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday charged Bank of America with misleading investors regarding billions of dollars paid to Merrill Lynch executives during the acquisition of the firm....
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday endorsed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a new four-year term, saying that his election was a vote toward combating poverty, corruption,...
A Malaysian court charged 29 protesters on Monday for their alleged involvement in weekend rallies against the country's Internal Security Act (ISA) . The law, which allows indefinite detainment without trial, was protested by an estimated...
An Iraqi court on Sunday convicted Ali Hassan al-Majid and former foreign minister and deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz of forcing the Kurdish population to be displaced from the...
Several Hollywood production companies filed suit Monday in Sweden against the operators of the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay , seeking an injunction. The US companies, including Disney, Universal, and Columbia Pictures, filed a writ to sue [The Local...
