The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Monday upheld a 1999 conviction of French author Mathieu Lindon for defamation. In his book "The Trial of Jean-Marie Le Pen," Lindon suggested that France's far-right...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will not open a formal investigation into allegations that computer chip maker Intel offered unfair discounts to convince computer makers to buy its products over those made by rival Advanced Micro...
Former Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) warlord Germain Katanga made an anticipated appearance in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague Monday. Katanga, only the second...
Russian prosecutors will push for a nine-year prison sentence for exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky in connection with charges that he embezzled millions from the Russian national airline Aeroflot , a lawyer appointed...
US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos Tuesday summoned Jerry Yang, chief executive of Yahoo! Inc. , to testify before a hearing next month regarding allegations that the Internet giant gave false information to Congress...
Milberg Weiss partner and co-founder Melvyn Weiss pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of conspiracy, racketeering, obstruction of justice and making false statements. Weiss was indicted last month and said at that...
Carla Del Ponte , the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , on Monday chided Serbian authorities for failing to bring to justice four accused war criminals who are believed...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will not be arrested upon her return to Pakistan, Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Monday. Bhutto has lived in self-exile in London and Dubai since she left the country...
Current Pakistani president and military leader General Pervez Musharraf appointed General Ashfaq Kiyani as new deputy army chief Monday, in an apparent consummation of his promise to step down as head of the country's military...
Afghanistan has ended a three-year moratorium on the death penalty by executing 15 prisoners Sunday by firing squad at Pul-e-Charkhi , the country's largest prison, Afghanistan's chief of prisons said Monday. The executions are the second confirmed reports...
