Military leaders in Myanmar on Saturday announced that Win Aung, Myanmar's former head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , has been put before a special tribunal at the Insein jail to face charges of abusing...
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Dennis Hastert (R-IL) on Friday announced his support for a deal reached earlier this week by Senate Republicans and the White House on long-term renewal of the USA...
Former Connecticut governor John G. Rowland was released from federal prison Friday after serving ten months of a one year sentence he received after pleading guilty to corruption charges ...
American Bar Association president Michael S. Greco said Friday that American civil liberties were under stress in a time of conflict, but that policymakers should resist the temptation to "take shortcuts with the Constitution." He made his...
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights has said that it will conduct its own investigation into the sinking of a ferry carrying 1,400 Egyptians in the Red Sea earlier this month. Another Egyptian NGO, the...
The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) has filed two federal lawsuits challenging laws in Maryland and Suffolk County, New York designed to push large retail stores such as Wal-Mart to spend...
Lawyers for naturalized American citizen Shawqi Ahmad Omar, who has been detained in Iraq for over a year, have asked a federal judge to intervene in the case and prevent Omar's transfer to Iraqi custody. US Justice Department officials...
British pharmaceutical company Chiron has announced that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ended its investigation of the company, which was related to Chiron's failure to supply sufficient flu vaccines [USA...
A Russian court has convicted Stanislav M. Dmitriyevsky , director of the US-supported Russian-Chechen Friendship Society , of inciting religious and ethnic hatred by publishing editorial commentaries by two Chechen separatist leaders in 2004. The...
The British government has said it may restrict a univeral jurisdiction law authorizing citizens to seek international warrants for the arrest of any individual accused of war crimes who enters the country. The Guardian newspaper reported Friday that...
