The US House of Representatives passed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) early Thursday by a narrow two-vote margin, 217-215 after a strong push by President Bush. Senate approval of CAFTA last month 54-45 [roll...
Police in Britain have confirmed that Yasin Hassan Omar, a Somali citizen with British residency, was among four men arrested when he was subdued with a stun gun after officers raided a home in Birmingham early Wednesday...
A French court Wednesday found 13 individuals and companies in the Mont Blanc tunnel disaster trial guilty of manslaughter, with former French head of tunnel security Gerard Roncoli receiving a six month prison sentence. Gilbert...
Ahmed Ressam , known as the "millennium bomber" for plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999 , was sentenced to 22 years in prison by federal judge John Coughenour Wednesday. US...
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that a company of the California Army National Guard was placed on restricted duty over allegations that members of the unit abused prisoners in Iraq, possibly with a stun gun....
Police arrested four suspects before dawn Wednesday morning in Birmingham, England, while searching for men wanted in last week's failed London bomb attacks . Reports from local media indicate that one of the men, subdued with a stun...
As briefly noted yesterday in JURIST's Corporations and securities brief, WorldCom ex-CFO Scott Sullivan and two other executives have reached civil settlements over their roles in WorldCom's disastrous accounting fraud that bankrupted the company. Sullivan -...
US lawmakers trying to block a Chinese takeover bid for US oil firm Unocal prior to an crucial shareholders' vote next month have added an amendment to an energy bill that would push back by more than...
US military judge Lieutenant Colonel Richard Anderson sentenced National Guard soldier Dustin Berg to 18 months in prison late Monday after he pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the deadly shooting of an Iraqi police officer. Berg...
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, facing charges of crimes against humanity, was denied permission late last week to stand trial or serve his sentence in Sweden. Swedish Justice Ministry director Ann Marie Bolin Pennegaard told AFP that the request...
