Ali Ahmed Kurd, a senior lawyer on the defense team for suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry , accused Pakistani government lawyers Tuesday of "wasting the time of and the...
US federal agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General conducted a joint raid on a poultry processing plant owned by George's Processing Inc. in...
The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) has issued a report criticizing Japan's justice system on a wide range of issues at the conclusion of its 38th Session . The committee expressed concern that Japan...
The US Senate voted Tuesday to keep plans to establish a temporary guest worker program in the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 . An amendment proposed by Sen. Byron L....
Thousands of farmers in southwestern China reportedly rioted over the weekend due to efforts by local government officials to more strictly enforce China's "One Child Policy" . A local resident told AP said that the government had imposed fines...
Chung Mong-koo , chairman of Hyundai Motors Group , pressed an appeal of his February 5 conviction for embezzlement and bribery Tuesday by submitting a written "pledge" to the Seoul High Court, hoping to obtain...
Moroccan police arrested three leading human rights activists and attempted to arrest three others in the disputed Western Sahara region Sunday amid a crackdown before scheduled talks with pro-independence factions next month. Brahim...
A Manhattan federal jury Monday convicted Dr. Rafik Abdus Sabir, a US citizen with a medical practice based in Florida, of conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda and attempting to provide that support. Sabir was...
A lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Monday that Hicks does not plan to challenge the legality of any control order imposed after his release from prison in Australia. David...
The British Crown Prosecution Service (CRS) said Tuesday that there is sufficient evidence to charge Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoi with murder in the poisoning death of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko [BBC profile; BBC...
