The federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Wednesday assigned all pending Vioxx product liability lawsuits to Judge Eldon Fallon of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in...
FBI Director Robert Mueller told the US Senate Committee on Intelligence Wednesday that the FBI remains concerned about attacks by al-Qaida and related terrorist groups, particularly the threat of attack from covert operatives already inside the US,...
AP is reporting that the US House has approved a dramatic increase in fines for indecent broadcast programming.3:38 PM ET - The House passed the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 by a vote of 389-38 [vote...
The American Civil Liberties Union has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations of abuse of detainees held at Abu Ghraib prison , Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Wednesday that the European Union should recognize that the US will never accept the International Criminal Court and should seek a practical solution to the problem....
The Kyoto Protocol takes legal effect Wednesday, 90 days after Russia ratified the treaty , providing the necessary number of ratifications for the treaty to come into force. Before becoming effective, the protocol,...
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that two British activists found guilty in the UK of libel against fast food chain McDonald's did not have a fair trial and were deprived of their...
International Committee of the Red Cross president Jakob Kellenberger met with President Bush Monday to discuss ICRC concerns about detainees at Guantanamo Bay . The Red Cross regularly visits the detainees...
The US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has said that former head of the UN Oil-for-Food program Benon Sevan made over $1 million from allocating oil from Saddam Hussein's...
A Bosnian court Friday acquitted eleven Serb policeman who had been linked to the murders of a Catholic priest and his parents during the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. Tomislav Matanovic and his parents disappeared in 1995 and their...
