A Thai court Monday released on bail six leaders of the July 22 anti-coup protest with the condition that they would not engage in activities that may increase "strife within society" or instigate violence. The defendants, anti-coup academics and...
The Moscow City Court has convicted former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin for his involvement in organizing a series of contract killings, sentencing Pichugin to life in prison Monday for organizing three...
Five Iraqi Cabinet ministers belonging to the secular and nonsectarian Iraqi National List announced a boycott of government meetings Monday, saying the coalition has decided to suspend its government participation because Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has signed off on the controversial Interception of Communications Bill , which establishes a government communications surveillance agency and authorizes the government to intercept communications across the telephone, the Internet, and other...
State legislatures across the United States have enacted at least 170 immigration-related bills in 2007 as a result of the "continued absence of a comprehensive federal reform of the United States' challenged immigration system," according to a...
The Sri Lankan government is responsible for a dramatic increase in unlawful killings, enforced disappearances and other serious human rights violations since the resumption of hostilities in 2006 with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [CFR...
President George W. Bush signed the Protect America Act 2007 Sunday, giving the Executive Branch expanded surveillance authority for a period of six months while Congress works on long-term legislation to "modernize" the Foreign...
A US military jury on Friday convicted Pfc. Jesse Spielman of four counts of felony murder, rape, conspiracy to commit rape, and housebreaking with intent to commit rape for his role in the March 2006 rape and murder of...
The US Senate on Friday passed the Protect America Act 2007 , under which the Executive Branch would be given expanded surveillance authority for a period of six months while Congress worked on long-term legislation to "modernize"...
Pojamarn Shinwatra, wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinwatra , filed a lawsuit Friday at the Bangkok Civil Court against the Assets Examination Committee (AEC) , alleging that the AEC's seizure of $86...
