The Kimberley Process (KP) on Thursday approved the limited sale of diamonds from the controversial Marange mines after reaching an agreement with the Zimbabwean government. The agreement, reached in a meeting of the international diamond monitoring body,...

Former head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and federal judge Jay Bybee denied approving a number of interrogation techniques used by the CIA, according to testimony released Thursday by the US...

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart to 10 years in prison, increasing her original sentence of 28 months. Stewart was convicted by a jury in 2005 on...

Goldman, Sachs & Co. on Thursday agreed to a $550 million settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to resolve charges that they marketed a subprime...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the torture convictions and sentence of Charles McArthur Emmanuel, son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor . Emmanuel was sentenced [JURIST...

The US Senate on Thursday voted 60-39 in favor of comprehensive financial reform legislation , sending it to President Barack Obama . The vote on the Restoring American...

Kyrgyz interim President Roza Otunbayeva on Thursday issued a decree establishing a commission to investigate last month's ethnic violence against the country's Uzbek population. The commission is comprised of 30 former government officials ,...

A senior defense lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was shot dead outside of his home Tuesday night. Police say Jwani Mwaikusa was killed , along with his...

Former Democratic Party fundraiser Hassan Nemazee was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty in March to charges of bank fraud and wire fraud relating to his orchestration of $292 million pyramid scheme. The federal judge...

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled 5-4 that the DC Charter was not violated when city officials refused to allow a ballot initiative on same-sex marriage . The court,...