The High Court in London ruled Thursday that the British Treasury Department may not freeze the assets of suspected terrorists without going through Parliament first. Five UK terror suspects who had their assets frozen ...
Former White House advisor Karl Rove was allegedly involved in a 2004 scheme to have Chicago-based US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald fired, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. According to the prosecutor, a witness at the...
The trial of former Saddam Hussein-era Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and six others will begin next week, an Iraqi judicial official said Wednesday. The seven former officials face charges related to the 1992...
A judge in Zimbabwe on Friday dismissed an attempt by opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to block a partial recount of Zimbabwe's March 29 elections . Official election...
The US Senate voted 64-28 Thursday to direct the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to open an investigation into discrepancies between the 2005 Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act (SAFETEA-LU) as approved in...
The Bush administration has asked the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to set aside a decision by a federal judge sitting in Vermont that allowed Vermont to regulate automotive greenhouse gas emissions....
The UN-backed International Criminal Court (ICC) swore in Silvana Arbia as new registrar in a ceremony at The Hague on Thursday, during which Arbia said that she intends to make protecting witnesses a...
Canada requested in 2002 that the United States not send detainee Omar Khadr to Guantanamo Bay after his capture in Afghanistan, according to a letter submitted with court documents filed by...
The US Department of Justice has opened an internal probe into whether DOJ lawyers acted improperly when advising the US Department of Defense in a 2003 memorandum that military interrogators could employ a...
South Korean prosecutors on Thursday charged Samsung Chairman and CEO Kun-Hee Lee with breach of trust and tax evasion, but decided not to charge him based on accusations that Samsung maintained a $200 million slush...
