A measure in the US Senate that would have overturned the current ban on habeas corpus petitions for detainees at Guantanamo Bay was unable to achieve the 60 votes needed to cut...
Kenyan lawmakers have approved a bill limiting the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) to investigating crimes committed after 2003. The amendment, deleting portions of the 2003 Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act , will make it impossible for the...
A Russian court Thursday upheld a ruling that a new investigation into former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev was illegal. The Moscow City Court supported Moscow's Basmanny...
Authorities in the United Kingdom are endangering the privacy of law-abiding Britons by increasingly using mass surveillance to profile people rather than targeting individual criminal suspects using intelligence-led policing, UK rights group Liberty concluded in a report...
A group of six US states and the District of Columbia, collectively called the "California group," Tuesday requested that the terms of the 2002 Microsoft antitrust settlement be extended from their scheduled...
A Chinese bank official convicted of corruption was executed Tuesday for taking bribes and embezzling the equivalent of almost $2 million USD. Wen Mengie, the former IT head of the Beijing branch of the Agricultural Bank...
Former British Guantanamo Bay detainee Tarek Dergoul is suing the UK's MI5 (domestic) and MI6 (foreign) intelligence services over complicity with Dergoul's alleged torture, according to a Wednesday report in...
The US Department of Defense said Thursday that 16 Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to their home country of Saudi Arabia . Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz...
A South Korean appeals court Thursday suspended the prison sentence of Chung Mong-koo , chairman of Hyundai Motors Group , for five years, saying imprisoning him for embezzlement and bribery would be too risky for the nation's...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Wednesday filed an appeal of last month's US District Court decision ruling that a 2005 law banning the sale of violent video games to minors was unconstitutional ....
