A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Thurday sentenced three members of the Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) separatist movement to death after finding them guilty of assassination and...
Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman filed a petition Thursday for the arrest of former Argentine President Carlos Menem and five others accused of covering up the possible involvement of businessman Alberto Jacinto Kanoore Edul in the 1994 bombing...
US military judge Col. Ralph Kohlmann Thursday denied a request by military-appointed defense lawyers to postpone the arraignment of the five Guantanamo Bay detainees charged with plotting the Sept. 11 attacks . The lawyers...
Japan's House of Councillors passed a bill Tuesday that would allow the country's space program to be used for defense purposes, including the development of spy satellites. The law, passed by an overwhelming majority of...
US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents were present during interrogations of terrorism suspects in which Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or Department of Defense (DOD) officers used "borderline torture" interrogation tactics, but they...
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Virginia law banning certain types of late-term abortions is unconstitutional. In 2005, a panel of judges on the same court declared...
The White House played a "significant role" in a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reject California's request for a waiver allowing the state to impose stricter greenhouse gas emissions standards on...
Pakistan's governing Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will propose an amendment to the country's 1973 Constitution to restrict judicial and presidential power, Pakistan's News daily reported Tuesday. The proposed amendment would raise the mandatory retirement age for...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday upheld a district court ruling that the design of US paper currency discriminates against the blind in violation of Section 504 of the...
A Bangladeshi anti-corruption court indicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday on charges that she received approximately $440,000 in illegal kickbacks on a power-plant deal while in office between 1996 and 2001....
