Syria has invited German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, head of a UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , to visit Damascus to discuss cooperation between UN investigators and the Syrian...
The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted Resolution 1637 , extending the mandate of the 180,000-strong multinational force in Iraq for another year. The US-led force was originally authorized in May...
French police and Interior Ministry officials said Wednesday that newly-authorized state of emergency powers were helping to subdue violence in the 13th day of rioting around the country. The government on Tuesday issued...
Callixte Kalimanzira, Rwanda's acting interior minister during the 1994 genocide , has surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , the court announced Tuesday. According to the tribunal, Kalimanzira is "charged with genocide, in...
The Bank of New York has agreed to pay $38 million in fines in order to avoid prosecution on fraud and money laundering charges, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. The federal investigation into the bank,...
Two senior Wal-Mart executives were aware that cleaning contractors were hiring illegal immigrants, according to an affidavit filed by the US Bureau of Immigration and Custom Enforcement as part of an effort to secure a...
AP is reporting that a lawyer for a co-defendant of Saddam Hussein has been assassinated in Baghdad. Last month, Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, a defense lawyer for one of Hussein's co-defendants, was kidnapped by 10 masked gunmen...
CBS News is reporting that file-sharing software developer Grokster has agreed to shut down its operations in order to settle an online piracy lawsuit filed by Hollywood and the music industry. In June 2005, the US Supreme...
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the Bush administration's use of military tribunals for foreign terror suspects. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld comes on appeal from the...
US Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) said Sunday that the Bush administration is making a "terrible mistake" by opposing a proposed ban on torture and other inhuman treatment of prisoners in US custody. The amendment, proposed...
