A UN committee charged with creating worldwide standards to protect persons with disabilities has been swamped with 150 proposed amendments to the draft convention currently under discussion. The Eighth Session of the committee on the UN...
A federal judge on Tuesday consented to a deferred-prosecution agreement between federal prosecutors and investment banker Frank Quattrone that allows Quattrone to avoid a third trial on obstruction of justice and witness tampering charges ...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday called on all states to standardize their criminal statutes dealing with sexual predators during a speech given at the 18th Annual Crimes Against Children Conference in Dallas....
The Congolese Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) , charged with overseeing the July presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo, released the provisional results of the election on Monday, and announced that...
UK authorities on Monday charged 11 people in connection with the foiled terror plot to bomb airplanes crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Eight were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and with preparing acts of terrorism,...
The Supreme Court of Chile on Friday stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from additional tax fraud charges, allowing prosecutors to continue with a $27 million fraud case stemming...
After a federal judge ruled the NSA domestic surveillance program unconstitutional on Thursday, President Bush said Friday in an appearance at Camp David that he believes the ruling will be overturned on...
Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon announced Friday that he will formally resign from his position on Sunday over allegations that he kissed a woman at a party without her consent. On Thursday, Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz...
The trial of blind Chinese human rights legal activist Chen Guangcheng for illegal assembly and intent to destroy public property was thrown into confusion Friday when Chinese police arrested three of his lawyers, who were accused...
The Tokyo High Court on Friday upheld Masami Tsuchiya's death sentence, handed down in 2004 after Tsuchiya was convicted for leading a Japanese cult's development of Sarin nerve gas used in the 1995 Tokyo subway attack . The...
