US District Court for the District of Columbia Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson Tuesday sentenced former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Dr. Lester M. Crawford to three years...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that authorities violated the freedom of the press when they raided the offices of the monthly political magazine Cicero . In September 2005, investigators searched the...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard was accused Tuesday of yielding to far-right groups who want a "white Australia" after the Australian Senate passed the Australian Citizenship Bill of 2006 on Monday. Seen as the...
Nigerian officials announced Tuesday the creation of an election tribunal to preside over disputes and complaints arising from the nation's general elections to be held in April 2007 . As Idris Kutigi, chief justice of the Nigerian Supreme...
US District Judge Reggie B. Walton dismissed a juror Monday morning in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby after questioning the jury over possible exposure to information about the trial...
Israeli Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann expressed support Sunday for restricting the ability of the Israeli Supreme Court to overturn laws passed by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset , and granting the Knesset...
Jean-Marie Le Pen , leader of France's far-right National Front , kickstarted his fifth bid to become president Sunday with an announcement of plans to reintroduce the death penalty just days after the French parliament [official website,...
Canada Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Sunday that Canada may adopt a British special counsel model to preserve the legality of using its security certificates to indefinitely detain foreigners with suspected ties to terrorism....
Forty-six of 49 countries participating in the the two-day Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions on Friday agreed to an action plan to develop a new international treaty to ban the use of cluster munitions [FAS...
Arturo Sarukhan , Mexico's newest ambassador to the US, says his country is launching an intensive lobbying effort to secure an immigration reform agreement between the two nations. The plan includes negotiations between Mexican consulates and US state...
