The government of Fiji Thursday lifted emergency regulations imposed on the country since unrest in early December. Military commander and self-declared interim Prime Minister Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama declared a state of emergency...
Turkey's parliament Thursday passed for a second time a constitutional amendment allowing for direct election to the presidency, but complaints of balloting violations arose even before the vote finished. The main opposition party, the secularist...
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton said Thursday that he will release more than 150 letters he has received in relation to next week's sentencing of former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby [defense website; JURIST news...
US federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging four current and former partners of "Big-Four" accounting firm Ernst & Young with tax fraud. The indictment alleges that the defendants created tax shelters...
Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, commander of the US Marine battalion that was accused of killing 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005, went before a military Article 32 hearing Wednesday...
Chief Justice Tulay Tugcu of Turkey's Constitutional Court asked prosecutors Wednesday to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for televised comments made Tuesday that...
A Kuwaiti appeals court upheld the acquittal of two former Guantanamo Bay detainees Tuesday, agreeing with a lower court that there was insufficient evidence to convict . The two men, Omar Rajab Amin and Abdullah...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California Wednesday against San Jose-based Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan , alleging that the...
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Tuesday in four cases to be heard next term. In Hall Street v. Mattel (06-989) the court will resolve a circuit...
UK government terrorism law watchdog Lord Carlile of Berriew Tuesday warned against the country opting out of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) in the process of adopting tougher anti-terrorism legislation and...
