US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday that he does not plan to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects...
Slovenian Interior Minister Dragutin Mate said Friday that a European Union plan to archive and exchange air passenger data had general support among EU ministers and could take effect as early as 2009. Interior ministers from EU...
Pakistani lawyers demonstrated in Islamabad Thursday to protest the continued detention of ousted Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry . The government of Pakistan has kept Chaudhry and several other judges and lawyers under preventative detention...
A Chinese dissident writer will face trial next week on subversion charges related to essays exposing corruption within the Communist Party of China , the writer's wife told AP Friday. Lu Gengsong was arrested last October...
Prosecutors dropped all criminal charges Friday against former Canadian Red Cross national medical director Dr. Roger Perrault, who had been implicated in Canada's tainted blood scandal , finding that there was "no reasonable prospect of conviction...
Spanish National Court judge Santiago Pedraz said Wednesday he will switch the focus of his investigation into genocide, torture, and other crimes against humanity in Guatemala's 36-year civil war towards obtaining witness testimony in light...
New International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz said Wednesday that finding and prosecuting Balkan war crimes suspects will be a top priority under his leadership. Brammertz called...
A lawyer for two UK residents formerly held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay prison argued in a British court Wednesday that they should not be extradited to Spain to face terror charges. Jamil el-Banna...
About 60 members of the 100-member Ecuadorian Congress met at a hotel in Quito Thursday despite being suspended by the special Constitutional Assembly in late November. Head of Congress Jorge Cevallos had said [press release,...
The Communist Party of China Thursday issued a list of "10 taboos" for public officials as part of the government's attempt to fight corruption ahead of a reshuffling of provincial leadership posts later this month....
