The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal Wednesday overturned a lower court decision that had allowed law enforcement to temporarily carry out covert surveillance. Justice Michael Hartmann of the Hong Kong High...
Serbian President Boris Tadic said Tuesday on the 11th anniversary of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8000 Muslim men and boys that all war criminals should be punished, regardless...
The US Army plans to discontinue a contract to provide logistical support to US troops with oil services giant Halliburton , the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Halliburton has served as the exclusive contractor...
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill to effectively ban most Internet gambling by a margin of 317-93 . The legislation would prohibit people from using credit cards and other...
William Haynes , the Pentagon general counsel nominated to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit , struggled to defend defense policies Tuesday during a Senate confirmation hearing , drawing bipartisan questions relating to...
European Commission antitrust regulators imposed a $357 million fine on Microsoft Wednesday for not complying with a 2004 European Union antitrust ruling . Early in July, the EC approved...
A lawyer representing one of 17 Canadians arrested on terror charges in June argued Monday in an Ontario court that Canada's anti-terror legislation discriminates because it focuses only on "brown" Muslim and Arab groups...
The European Court of Justice Tuesday found former French prime minister Edith Cresson breached the obligations of her office by indulging in favoritism and abuse of office when she served as a...
China has rejected a strongly worded UN Security Council official website] resolution responding to North Korea's missile launches earlier this month, instead proposing a mild resolution to encourage North Korea not to launch test-missiles....
A group of twenty retired military officers has submitted a letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee expressing "deep concern" about the fitness of William Haynes II , the current Pentagon general counsel,...
