Newmont Mining Corporation agreed on Thursday to settle a civil suit brought by Indonesia for $30 million, ending one of two significant legal battles between the two parties. The settlement comes after Indonesia decided...
The Australian Parliament ended a de facto ban on the so-called "abortion drug" RU-486 (also known as Mifepristone) on Thursday by removing the need for approval by the Health Minister to use the drug. Tony Abbott [official...
Iraq's Interior Ministry Thursday announced an investigation into claims that a police death squad has been operating in Iraq, either working for, or claiming to work for the ministry itself. The US military says it recently detained 22 men...
Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) , chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee, has complained of bias in a recent report of the Congressional Research Service on the NSA domestic spying program . In a...
A Zimbabwean court has set aside a decision by country's media commission not to license the Daily News newspaper. The newspaper was ordered to stop publishing in 2003 for criticizing the government. In March 2005, the country's supreme court...
The trial of Ernst Zundel on charges of incitement, libel and disparaging the dead in connection with denying the Holocaust resumed on Thursday in Mannheim, Germany after being put...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has denied allegations from Amnesty International that the government has unlawfully detained thousands of protestors as part of the latest anti-government crackdown. Amnesty has said that thousands of students from...
Human rights observers have accused the US of ignoring a deteriorating situation in Russia, including crackdowns on the media and overreach of executive power. Mark Medish, a spokesman for the independent Council on Foreign Relations, told the US Commission...
The Bush administration has declined requests from the US Senate Judiciary Committee to produce classified legal opinions on the NSA's domestic spying program for a hearing scheduled for Monday . The...
Irwin Cotler , the outgoing Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, has said that despite some indications from Canada's incoming Conservative party government , he doubts that the country's recently enacted same-sex marriage law [JURIST...
