The Federal Bureau of Investigation is currently investigating Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, and AIG along with 22 other financial institutions for possible mortgage fraud , US media outlets reported Tuesday. The investigations...
Complaints filed with a Senegal prosecutor last week by fourteen Chadian and Senegalese citizens alleging that former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre was responsible for war crimes and torture are merely "judicial persecution,"...
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo traveled to New York Monday to seek support from members of the United Nations and the African Union for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [BBC...
Five former members of the Brigade of Gurkhas began arguments Tuesday in the High Court in London against an immigration policy that has precluded thousands of retired Nepalese members of the British Army from remaining...
South African President Thabo Mbeki spoke out Tuesday against an International Criminal Court indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir , telling reporters that the move will jeopardize stability in the Darfur...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday that a drug company refusing to meet "ordinary" orders for medicine as a means of thwarting parallel exports abuses its market position. The decision comes in...
Members of the US Congress spoke out about regulatory changes and investigations following a stock market drop propelled by Lehman Brothers' Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and the sale of Merrill Lynch on Monday. Speaker of the House...
US government secrecy continued to increase in 2007, according to the Secrecy Report Card 2008 released Tuesday by OpenTheGovernment.org . The report chastized the Bush administration for its refusal "to be held accountable...
A Fulton County Superior Court judge on Monday granted summary judgment for the state of Georgia in a suit alleging that the state's electronic voting system is unconstitutional and illegally vulnerable to fraud. The challenge, filed in...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday calling on Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen to join in a global moratorium on the death penalty for juveniles. The report...
