EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini told the European Parliament Monday that protections afforded under the US Privacy Act will extend to European Union citizens as a part of a new airline passenger...
The Thai Supreme Court agreed to hear corruption charges against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Tuesday, scheduling the first hearing for August 14 and ordering the exiled Thaksin and his wife Pojamarn...
Zheng Xiaoyu, former commissioner of China's State Food and Drug Administration was executed Tuesday, as the Supreme People's Court denied Zheng's appeal for leniency. The court sanctioned Zheng's execution, saying that Zheng's acceptance...
Ethiopian prosecutors Monday sought the death penalty against 38 opposition members convicted in June of treason and inciting violence for their roles in mass anti-government demonstrations , saying that the defendants have not demonstrated remorse and therefore should...
House Judiciary Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) urged the White House Monday to waive executive privilege concerning its decision to commute the prison sentence for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , saying that the...
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Monday urged the Filipino government to revisit the controversial 2007 Human Security Act , saying that "many voices are apprehensive" about the anti-terror legislation. Critics say...
The White House Monday renewed and elaborated its assertion of executive privilege as regards testimony and materials wanted by Congressional investigators in connection with the US Attorney firings controversy . In a letter ...
New French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published Sunday by the French newspaper Journal du Dimanche that he will not continue with the tradition of granting mass pardons on Bastille...
Thousands of Japanese "war orphans" , children abandoned in China after World War II, have accepted an aid proposal from the Japanese government in exchange for abandoning all compensation claims, government spokesperson Yasuhisa Shiozaki...
Indonesian prosecutors filed a civil action against former President Haji Mohammad Suharto Monday, alleging that Suharto embezzled $440 million from the Yayasan Supersemar, a state-funded academic scholarship fund, between 1974 and 1998. The suit, which seeks to...
