The government of Sudan Sunday announced it had laid criminal charges against 25 opposition politicians. The announcement came one month after the country's Court of Appeal rejected a request for the release of the...
UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro flew into Myanmar on Sunday to investigate the military government's crackdown on protesters going on since September. Pinheiro's trip comes three weeks after the junta in...
Chadian authorities Sunday freed seven Europeans - three French journalists and four Spanish flight attendants - held in connection with a French charity's attempted airlift from Chad of 103 children alleged to be Darfur orphans. French President Nicolas Sarkozy...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Friday asked the US Supreme Court to review a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York vacating an FCC determination [FCC...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague announced Friday that hearings in a case involving France and Djibouti will begin January 21, 2008. The dispute between the two countries...
Former US Guantanamo Bay chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published Saturday that politics is interfering with Guantanamo prosecutions . Davis said that recently-approved rules governing...
The Supreme Court of Peru has convicted former Peruvian economy minister Jorge Baca Campodonico of embezzlement, according to the government's official gazette Saturday. Campodonico diverted $59.4 million from government funds to failing private bank Banco...
Embezzlement charges against the widow and five sons of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet originally indicted with 17 others on October 4 were dropped...
Citizens of Kyrgyzstan voted Sunday in a constitutional referendum proposed by Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev last month. The proposed amendments to the Kyrgyz constitution include increasing the number of...
Seymour Lazar pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction of justice, subscribing to a false tax return and making a false declaration for his role in the Milberg Weiss kickback scheme where the firm is accused of paying up...
