The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear five cases , including Herring v. United States (07-513) , where the Court will decide whether evidence seized during a...
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Poste reprinted a cartoon Wednesday drawn by Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard one day after Danish police arrested three people suspected in a plot to murder Westergaard for his characterization of Muhammad. Westergaard...
The National Parliament of East Timor voted Wednesday to extend the state of emergency imposed this week after attacks against President Jose Ramos Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao , during which Horta was...
The Guatemalan Congress voted to restore the death penalty Tuesday, passing a bill that ends a six-year moratorium on executions imposed by the Constitutional Court in 2002. Under the new law,...
South African Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula on Tuesday introduced in parliament a proposal to dissolve the Directorate of Special Investigations , also known as "The Scorpions," a special agency in South Africa's...
The European Commission (EC) Tuesday carried out an unannounced inspection at the Munich office of semiconductor manufacturing giant Intel , as part of an investigation into Intel's possible anticompetitive practices directed at rival chip...
US District Judge James Ware of the US District Court for the Northern District of California heard arguments Tuesday on the government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan on state secrets grounds. The...
The corruption trial of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed was halted Wednesday when the Dhaka High Court ruled that she could not be tried by a special court established under state of...
Opponents of a new anti-immigration measure in Farmers Branch, Texas filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that the measure was not properly approved. The ordinance was passed by the Dallas...
Uzbekistan authorities have granted a pardon to a journalist and Human Rights Watch (HRW) translator sentenced to prison, according to Tuesday reports. Umida Niyazova was sentenced to seven years after...
