The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced Tuesday that it has renewed claims and is seeking greater damages against 13 local cigarette importers in an effort to "curb the spreading of some serious...

Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a Monday interview with Egyptian television that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should wait for Darfur peace efforts to play out before proceeding with...

A Chilean judge on Monday formally charged the youngest son, former secretary, and estate executor of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for maliciously making false or incomplete tax declarations. The charges relate to multi-million...

A Myanmar court on Tuesday sentenced fourteen members of the 88 Generation Students pro-democracy group to sixty-five years in prison, according to media reports . The sentencing was revealed...

Advisers to US President-elect Barack Obama emphasized Monday in the wake of press reports that Obama has not made a decision regarding the future of the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and its...

UK House of Lords judge Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury has said that when the new UK Supreme Court is constituted in 2009 replacing the current Law Lords, members of the country's Parliament should be...

The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday announced the transfer of two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Algeria. The Department says that approximately 60 detainees at the base are eligible for release,...

Taipei police arrested former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian on Tuesday following questioning by prosecutors about possible corruption and money laundering. Prosecutors are specifically questioning whether Chen, the former leader of the now-opposition Democratic Progressive...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied a government motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and...

Members of the Chinese delegation to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) on Monday said that the Chinese government had provided training and enacted judicial reforms to help implement its prohibitions...