GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to pay $3.4 billion to settle Internal Revenue Service claims in what the IRS calls "the largest tax dispute in the history of the Internal Revenue Service." According...
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , the region's official human rights watchdog organization, said Monday that US practices of allegedly subjecting terror suspects to torture do nothing to make the country safer...
US President Bush on Wednesday presented the Military Commissions Act of 2006 , proposed legislation that would authorize military commissions for terror detainees and enemy combatants. The Bush administration agreed to...
US President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated secret prisons outside the US where high-value terror suspects were detained, and said that 14 of those suspects...
A new US Army Field Manual on intelligence interrogations released Wednesday specifies that the Geneva Conventions apply to all detainees and eliminates separate standards for the questioning...
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , the defeated Mexican presidential candidate, said Tuesday that he refused to recognize the officially-declared victory of president-elect Felipe Calderon and confirmed plans to...
Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal on Tuesday certified Felipe Calderon as the winner of Mexico's disputed July 2 presidential election . Calderon's opponent, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez...
Federal prosecutors have asked that a judge sentence civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart to 30 years in prison, saying that Stewart's "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession ... deserves to be severely punished." Stewart was convicted [JURIST...
UK Home Secretary John Reid has promised to go ahead with Tuesday's planned deportations of 32 Iraqis who sought asylum in the UK, saying that only a court injunction will prevent the plane carrying the Iraqis from...
The South African National Assembly , the lower house of the country's parliament, has passed the Prohibition of Mercenary Activity and Regulation of Certain Activities in Areas of Armed Conflict Bill , legislation that would prevent South...
