The US District Court for the District of Alaska Tuesday ordered ConocoPhillips subsidiary Polar Tankers, Inc. to pay $2.5 million in fines after it pleaded guilty to covering up a 2004 oil spill. In January...
The US State Department cannot account for most of the $1.2 billion that it paid to a private contractor hired to train Iraqi police forces, according to an interim review report from...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been barred from leaving Pakistan in violation of an amnesty agreement signed by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf , according to her Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Tuesday. As...
The United States and the European Commission (EC) Tuesday announced plans for multinational negotiation of an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to promote international enforcement of copyright law . Talks...
US Attorney General nominee Michael B. Mukasey told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that he opposes presidential authorization of torture, calling the controversial "Bybee Memo" "unnecessary" and...
A Philippines military tribunal Wednesday dismissed charges against four military officers connected with a failed mutiny in July 2003 in which 300 soldiers from elite special forces took over buildings in Manila in an effort to overthrow...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has increasingly turned its focus to terrorism and immigration offenses since 2000, according to a Washington Post report Wednesday. Statistics from the Executive Office for US Attorneys [official...
The United Nations Legal Counsel said Monday that an international convention may be the solution to jurisdictional problems of criminal accountability of UN officials and experts on mission . Addressing the General Assemblys Sixth...
The US District Court for the District of Maryland ruled Tuesday that three of the five counts of a suit filed by the father of a fallen Marine against the renegade Westboro Baptist Church [WARNING: readers may...
The Nevada Supreme Court Monday issued a stay of all executions pending a US Supreme Court ruling in a case challenging lethal injection as unconstitutional under the...
