Turkey may legally require a political party to win at least 10 percent of the national vote in parliamentary elections in order to win seats in the country's National Assembly, the European Court of Human Rights ruled...
The Somali transitional government on Tuesday began imposing martial law over areas under the government's control, two weeks after martial law was approved by parliament . Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi made the announcement late Tuesday...
A North Carolina state judge on Thursday issued an injunction blocking two executions until Gov. Mike Easley issues new procedures to execute capital defendants without the presence of doctors. The new execution protocol is required after the North Carolina...
US Army Pfc. Corey R. Clagett pleaded guilty during his court-martial on Thursday to charges of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to obstruct justice, relating to the killing of several Iraqi detainees after...
US District Court Judge Melinda Harmon on Wednesday granted a motion to dismiss seven defendants from the Enron shareholder derivative lawsuit , scheduled to go to trial in April. The lead plaintiff in the case, the University...
US District Judge Marcia Clarke did not sanction a defense lawyer for alleged terrorist Jose Padilla during Wednesday court hearings for violating a protective order that bars distribution of sensitive documents, but instead had...
Sentencing proceedings in the case against Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan were postponed until February 12 Thursday after lawyers for the survivors of Ramadan's crimes failed to show up in court. The lawyers...
Federal authorities arrested a Mississippi man Wednesday for the 1964 kidnapping and deaths of two black men in another reopened civil rights-era case . James Ford Seale, now 71 years old, was originally arrested in 1964 on...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged Israeli President Moshe Katsav to step down Wednesday in the face of possible charges of rape and sexual harassment . Haaretz quoted Olmert as saying that "In these circumstances there...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether criminal conspiracy charges brought against former US Rep. Tom Delay were properly dismissed at trial. Charges of conspiracy to violate election law...
