Judge Patricia Williams of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Washington on Thursday rejected a $45.7 million settlement agreement offered by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane to 75 clergy...
Fifteen Saudi detainees who were being held at Guantanamo Bay arrived in Saudi Arabia on Friday. The US transferred the detainees to Saudi custody after the transfers were approved by a Guantanamo Administrative...
The US Senate on Thursday approved two controversial amendments to the immigration reform bill on the status of English in the United States. The first amendment, proposed by Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) ...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has said that all public companies, regardless of their size, must eventually comply with rules implementing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 , which is designed to protect investors....
The United States on Thursday introduced a new draft nuclear weapons treaty at a meeting of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. The Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty (FMCT) , tabled ...
Thousands of Turks marched in Ankara on Thursday to denounce the shooting of five judges Wednesday in the Council of State , Turkey's highest administrative court. The judges were shot by an attacker, reported to be...
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Wednesday that military officials are conflicted about the specific guidelines on interrogation techniques to be included in a new Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation during...
Chinese Internet journalist Yang Tianshui, a member of China's chapter of International PEN , was sentenced to twelve years in prison on Tuesday on charges that he attempted to "subvert state power" by posting essays on the Internet...
An unidentified attacker on Wednesday shot five judges in the Council of State , Turkey's highest administrative court located in Ankara. The wounded judges are all from the same court chamber, which deals with education issues and in...
Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman ruled Wednesday that Saddam Hussein will be permitted to testify on behalf of a co-defendant when his trial before the Iraqi High Criminal Court resumes on Monday. Abdel-Rahman said...
