The Pittsburgh City Council on Wednesday passed an ordinance in anticipation of the upcoming Group of 20 (G-20) summit that will allow police to cite people in possession of certain items...
The Taipei District Court has ruled that former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian will not be released on bail, according to an aide Wednesday. Chen was found guilty on corruption charges and sentenced to life...
The UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) in Afghanistan said Tuesday that ballots from about 10 percent of polls need to be recounted because of allegations of fraud in last month's presidential election. Canadian head of the ECC...
A Niger opposition leader who opposed a constitutional referendum to allow President Mamadou Tandja to remain in office said Monday that he had been charged with financial crimes. Mahamadou Issoufou, leader of the Nigerien Party...
The 2008 Crime in the US (CIUS) report released Monday by the FBI indicates that the level of violent crime in the US dropped by 1.9 percent between 2007 and 2008. Specifically, between 2006 and 2007,...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Monday began the trial of former high ranking Bosnian Serb officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin . Stanisic, former Bosnian Serb interior minister, and...
A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday rejected a $33 million settlement agreement between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Bank...
US President Barack Obama stressed the need for stronger financial industry regulations Monday in a speech marking the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings. Obama warned that signs the economy is...
Belgian school officials announced Friday that Muslim headscarves will be banned in about 700 schools in the Dutch-speaking northern region of Flanders. The move came after an administrative tribunal ruled Tuesday that individual schools could not...
US Department of Defense (DOD) general counsel Jeh Johnson said Thursday that the Obama administration remains committed to closing the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by early next year. Speaking before...
