Microsoft must abide by the terms of its 2002 antitrust settlement with the US Justice Department through November 2009, a federal judge said Wednesday. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly...
Visitors to Japan will be electronically fingerprinted and photographed under a bill approved Wednesday by the House of Councillors , the upper house of Japan's parliament. Foreign visitors 16 and older will have their fingerprints...
A disciplinary hearing for two Egyptian judges who complained of alleged fraud in last year's parliamentary elections is set to resume amid renewed clashes between riot police and the judges' supporters . The judges, Mahmoud Mekki...
The US Senate on Tuesday rejected a conservative amendment to proposed immigration legislation that would have required new US border security measures to be fully completed and fully operational before the government could implement a program...
Martin Scheinin , UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, said Tuesday that US officials have been stonewalling investigations into allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency flew terrorism suspects through Europe to...
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter and conservative members of the committee have struck a deal on Specter's proposed bill to clarify the legality of the National Security Agency surveillance...
The UN Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday that accelerates planning for a United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region . US President Bush last week asked the Council [press...
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has stayed Tuesday's scheduled execution of a gang member who tortured and killed two teenage girls . The reason for the stay, announced in a...
European foreign ministers on Monday again promised progress toward admitting Serbia to the European Union if war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is handed over promptly. The former Bosnian Serb general is...
Jacob Zuma has regained his position as deputy president of South Africa's ruling African National Congress after his acquittal on charges of raping an HIV-positive woman. The ANC's Executive Committee decided Sunday to...
