A UK crown court on Friday ordered five companies to pay £9.5 million in damages relating to the 2005 Buncefield oil storage depot explosion , which has been described as the most costly industrial...
The lawyer for US geologist Xue Feng announced Friday that Xue has appealed his conviction for selling state secrets, arguing that the information to which he had access did not include protected information. Xue was convicted earlier...
The Russian State Duma on Friday voted 354 to 96 to approve legislation that would allow the country's secret police, the Federal Security Service (FSB) , to question citizens about their actions related to...
Former head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and federal judge Jay Bybee denied approving a number of interrogation techniques used by the CIA, according to testimony released Thursday by the US...
Former Democratic Party fundraiser Hassan Nemazee was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty in March to charges of bank fraud and wire fraud relating to his orchestration of $292 million pyramid scheme. The federal judge...
A Gambian court on Thursday sentenced eight mensix former army officers and two former high-ranking government officialsto death for their roles in a 2009 coup attempt. The men were charged in March with conspiring to overthrow the...
Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday ordered the release of accused Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo . The announcement comes one week after the court...
Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox (R) filed an amicus curiae brief Wednesday on behalf of nine states in support of Arizona in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by the US...
The US House Committee on Natural Resources on Wednesday approved an amendment , as part of a broader piece of legislation that would bar new offshore drilling and gas permits to any company...
The UK High Court announced Wednesday that a lawsuit, filed by former Guantanamo Bay detainees and alleging that the UK government was complicit in their torture, can proceed. The lawsuit, filed by 12 ex-detainees, alleges that...
