The UK High Court Friday heard arguments in a case that alleges British troops tortured ten Iraqi detainees in Basra in 2003. The nine plaintiffs and a tenth man were arrested in a Basra hotel where British...
Internet VoIP provider Vonage Holding Corp. on Thursday settled a patent lawsuit against it brought by Verizon Communications for up to $120 million. The exact amount of damages Vonage will have to...
Peruvian Justice Minister Maria Zavala Thursday apologized for the 1992 death squad killings of nine university students and a professor in the so-called La Cantuta massacre during the regime of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori [BBC...
European and US-based rights groups filed a lawsuit against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with the Paris prosecutor Friday coincident with Rumsfeld's arrival in Paris to deliver a speech sponsored by Foreign Policy...
Iraqi parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani Thursday objected to the execution of former Saddam Hussein-era Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmed al-Tai , joining a group of Iraqi political leaders speaking out against the planned execution. Al-Mashhadani said that executing...
Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada abandoned efforts to appeal his corruption conviction on charges stemming from kickbacks he received while in office and instead submitted a letter Monday to current Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ...
Chile staked a claim to a portion of Antarctica with the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) Monday after the United Kingdom made a similar claim to Antarctic land last week...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Tuesday that a German law protecting Volkswagen AG from hostile takeovers is illegal , saying the law limits "the free movement of capital" and...
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Monday to "take legal action" against 400 companies that allegedly supplied chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988...
Taiwanese lawmaker Gao Jyh-peng of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led by beleaguered Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian was indicted Monday on graft charges. Prosecutors allege that Gao, a close acquaintance of Chen,...
