An Argentine court sentenced former general Luciano Benjamin Menendez and four others to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture, and killing of four political dissidents during the country's so-called "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity...
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit against financial firm UBS on Thursday for allegedly misrepresenting so-called "auction rate securities" as low-risk despite the actual volatility of such investments. In the...
The US Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday held hearings on a bill designed to give Native American courts and law enforcement broader authority to combat violent and sex-related crimes. Senator Byron Dorgan...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) argued on Wednesday that it should be immune from lawsuits brought by Hurricane Katrina evacuees who claim they were injured by toxic fumes released by emergency trailers provided...
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 , a bill designed to address problems from the country's so-called "sub-prime mortgage collapse." The Act provides for government...
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey announced to the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday that during his remaining time in office he will focus primarily on addressing the legal rights of...
Sudan plans to create its own internationally-monitored courts to try war crimes suspects from the country's Darfur region , League of Arab States (LAS) official Hisham Yussef said on Tuesday. The International Criminal...
Executives from several Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and broadband internet service providers urged the US House of Representatives on Tuesday to pass HR 3914 , a bill that would make it harder for companies...
A Serbian prosecutor said on Tuesday that the government plans to extradite Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic to the Hague to face an International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) war crimes indictment ....
Singapore's Minister for Health Khaw Boon Wan announced on Monday that the country is considering allowing donors to sell their kidneys to those seeking transplants. Boon Wan made the announcement before the country's parliament and...
