The Berkeley, California city council voted Tuesday to support the criminal complaint filed in Germany against former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
A court in Rome convicted five former officers of the Argentina military Wednesday on charges of torturing, kidnapping and murdering three Italian citizens during Argentina's 1976-83 "Dirty War" . All five defendants, who were tried...
US Marine Corps Cpl. Trent D. Thomas was arraigned Thursday on charges of murder and kidnapping related to the April 2006 slaying of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania , but declined...
A federal judge in California on Thursday dismissed all claims in the second of four patent infringement lawsuits filed by Alcatel-Lucent against Microsoft Corp. . The case, which was scheduled to begin trial...
The US Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Thursday agreed to extend by 18 months the compliance timeline for the REAL ID Act until December 31, 2009. In...
US Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and 78 other House of Representatives members introduced a bill Wednesday that would crack down on gasoline price gouging by instituting harsh criminal and civil penalties on oil and...
Attorneys for US Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) on Wednesday requested the return of the materials seized from the congressman's office during an 18-hour raid in May 2006 by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official...
Bosnian BiH presidency member Haris Silajdzic on Monday called for an amendment to the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) constitution that would end the country's division into ethnic mini-states and create a unified nation. Silajdzic's proposal was...
US District Judge Benson Legg Monday suspended a requirement that the Maryland Attorney General submit proposals for using medical professionals to conduct lethal injections until such time as the controversy over the status of the...
Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil Monday filed an appeal of his four-year prison sentence on charges of inciting sedition, insulting Islam, harming national unity and insulting the president in remarks he posted on his Internet...
