Indonesia on Tuesday formally accepted a joint Indonesian-East-Timorese Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) finding that Indonesia was responsible for human rights violations following a 1999 referendum in which East Timor voted for independence...
A New York district court judge ruled Monday that Internet auction house eBay is not required to actively monitor its website for the sale of counterfeit goods. The decision comes in a case brought by...
Five men involved in an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic planes leaving a London airport pleaded guilty to lesser conspiracy charges Monday in London's Woolwich Crown Court . Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar, and Tanvir...
US President George W. Bush issued a memorandum Monday to the Secretary of the Interior, lifting an executive ban on offshore oil drilling put in place in 1990 by then-President George H. W. Bush....
The Supreme Court of Switzerland Monday ruled that Doctors without Borders (MSF) must repay the Dutch government for its share of a ransom paid to secure the release of a MSF official. MSF's...
A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Friday sentenced a former US Department of Defense (DOD) official to almost five years in prison for disclosing national defense information...
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected a Bush administration appeal against a 2007 order requiring that White House visitor logs be released in compliance with...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert misappropriated approximately $100,000 by double-billing different sources for travel and hotel expenses, Israeli police said Friday after questioning the politician. Olmert's travel agency, Rishon Tours, would allegedly ask various state agencies and...
The Thai Attorney General's Office filed new corruption charges against former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in the country's Supreme Court Friday. The charges relate to a 2003 resolution that reduced fees paid by...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that next week it will rule on a Mexican petition asking to delay the executions of five Mexicans on death row in the US. Mexican authorities allege...
