A special court in Myanmar Friday charged US citizen Kyaw Zaw Lwin, also known as Nyi Nyi Aung , with forgery and violating the country's foreign currency act . The charges could result...
Chinese rights activist Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Friday on subversion charges. Liu was tried on Wednesday in a trial that lasted only two hours and was closed to foreign diplomats. The...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that Microsoft infringed on a patent of Canadian company i4i ...
Iranian economist and journalist Saeed Laylaz was sentenced to a nine-year jail term on Wednesday for possessing classified information and participating in protests following the contested presidential election in June . Laylaz has been a longstanding critic...
The Iraqi parliament approved a new election law following last Wednesday's veto of a similar bill by Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi . Al-Hashemi indicated that...
Iraqi Sunni Arab Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on Wednesday announced his veto of the first article of the recently passed election law at a press conference in Baghdad. Hashemi said...
US State Department spokesman Ian Kelley confirmed Monday that the US will send an observer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the first time this year. The announcement was made...
Lawyers for four Chinese Muslim Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay filed a petition for certiorari with the US Supreme Court Tuesday, raising issues with the government policy for transferring detainees to other...
The US Senate official website] on Monday confirmed Judge Andre Davis, President Barack Obama's nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit , by a vote of 72-16 . Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick...
The Ohio Supreme Court set dates Wednesday for two inmates to be executed by lethal injection , despite a temporary stay on executions in the state. Michael Bueke is scheduled to be executed...
