An attorney for former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay has indicated that he intends to ask a federal court to vacate Lay's criminal convictions and dismiss the indictment in the case. Lawyer Samuel Buffone...
UK Labour Party MP Jim Sheridan resigned Wednesday from his government position as Parliamentary Private Secretary of the Defense Team, citing the Blair administration's reluctance to demand an immediate end to the ongoing Middle East conflict [JURIST...
Two hundred Mexican judges on Wednesday began a partial recount of ballots cast in the disputed July 2 presidential elections as supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador continued...
Ethiopia on Tuesday submitted its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) to the UN Secretary-General. The CTBT bans any nuclear explosion, for testing purposes or otherwise, and was...
San Diego city officials and management broke federal securities laws by failing to fulfill their fiduciary duties in administering the city's pension fund for police officers, firefighters, and other public officials, according to an independent audit presented...
The US military has arrested four Iraqi members of an insurgent kidnapping cell in connection with the kidnapping of Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll . Carroll was working in Iraq when she was kidnapped...
The Serbian government has called for the prosecution of Bosnian military officer Atif Dudakovic after a Serbian television station broadcast a video Tuesday that allegedly shows Dudakovic ordering his troops to burn a Serb village in 1995. The...
The Jakarta Court of Appeal has ruled that Indonesian Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh was correct to drop a corruption case against former President Suharto , citing Suharto's inability to speak or write due to permanent brain damage...
A panel of three federal judges on Friday redrew Texas's 23rd Congressional District to "restore Latino voting strength" to the district in compliance with a June 2005 Supreme Court ruling. The new congressional map as drawn...
UN agencies working in Gaza joined Friday to urge respect for international humanitarian law and the obligation to protect civilians, reminding the international community in a joint statement not to forget the violence there while attention to...
