A group of 27 Muslim organizations have filed a lawsuit against the two editors from Jyllands-Posten who were responsible for the Danish newspaper's publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad , which last month set...
Chief Justice Mawlavi Fazel Hadi Shinwari of the Afghanistan Supreme Court on Thursday asserted the independence of the high court in response to criticism from members of Afghanistan's parliament for the release of Abdul Rahman ,...
The Hong Kong Law Reform Commission (HKLRC) on Friday released its proposals to embed greater safeguards in the executive order on covert surveillance operations made last year by Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen [official...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that US authorities have arrested Faheem Mousa Salam, a government contractor performing translation for Titan Corporation in Iraq, on bribery charges in Washington, DC. Salam, a naturalized...
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday announced a lawsuit against Gratis Internet that alleges the company illegally sold the personal information - including e-mail addresses - of between one and seven...
The Belarus Central Election Commission has dismissed a complaint contesting the results of Sunday's election, which provided a landslide victory for Alexander Lukashenko , who garnered over 82 percent of the vote. The complaint,...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday announced the indictment of 50 leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) , the countrys largest guerilla group,...
Three Samsung executives agreed to plead guilty Wednesday for conspiring to drive up the prices in the market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. The three South Koreans will serve jail sentences...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether a federal immigration law authorizing deportation can be applied to illegal immigrants who entered the country before its enactment. The case, Fernandez-Vargas v. Gonzales...
The number of asylum applications submitted to industrialized countries has decreased for the fourth year in a row and the number of asylum seekers arriving in Western nations has plummeted by half in the last five years [UNHCR press...
