Several former Burundi government officials who were arrested and detained on Tuesday are being abused in detention, according to family members of the detainees pleading for international attention on local radio broadcasts. The wife of former Vice...
The Verkhovna Rada , the Ukraine parliament, on Friday swore in 11 judges who will compose the Ukrainian Constitutional Court . Judges are nominated to the court by parliament, the president and by an...
Documents made public Thursday show the US government ordered the ACLU to censor copies of newspaper articles and several instances of unfavorable Supreme Court language that appeared in ACLU papers over the course of litigation involving...
The US Senate on Thursday ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime , which is intended to improve information- and evidence-sharing between national governments to prevent crimes on the Internet. The convention has been signed by 38 European...
A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to consider refund petitions filed by California state agencies and California businesses that claim refunds arising from the California energy crisis of 2000-2001 ...
PC hardware manufacturer Rambus unlawfully monopolized four markets for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) computer chips and deliberately withheld information about forthcoming patents on the technology from a technology-standards-setting group, according to an opinion released...
Two Hamas officials - the Palestinian Minister for Prisoners' Affairs and a deputy speaker in the Palestinian Legislative Council - who were released from Israeli custody this week told reporters Wednesday that they had been...
Attorneys for a US soldier under investigation for civilian killings in Iraq filed a defamation and invasion of privacy lawsuit Wednesday against Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) in a Washington DC federal court. The suit alleges...
The UK Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) on Wednesday cleared the way for the UK to resume deportations of Zimbabwe citizens seeking asylum in Britain, overturning a previous decision that all Zimbabwe citizens face a...
The US Senate on Tuesday approved a measure to seize land on Mount Soledad in San Diego, thus permitting the First Amendment , rather than the California constitution, to control the issue of whether...
