Italy's Constitutional Court was asked Saturday to rule on a new law granting top Italian lawmakers immunity from prosecution while in office as a judge in Milan formally suspended a long-running corruption case...

US Department of Justice officials announced Friday that a private security company contracted by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and four of its executives and employees have been charged with conspiracy, major fraud and wire...

Kenyan police Saturday confirmed that Ethiopian authorities have released eight suspected Kenyan terrorists, saying that the suspects have been reunited with their families. Kenyan authorities rendered the suspects to Somalia in early 2007, where they were handed over to...

The US Department of Defense Friday announced the referral of nine terrorism-related charges against Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani , who is accused of involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania...

The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on Friday reopened its courthouse in Kosovo's northern city of Mitrovica. The courts were closed after being taken over by Serbian protesters in March...

Investigators from the Russian Prosecutor General's Office have completed their investigation into the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya , Russian news agencies reported Thursday. Three men, Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, and brothers Dzhabrail...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Thursday overturned the convictions of Yemeni cleric Sheikh Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad and assistant, Mohammed Zayed , also from Yemen, because of evidentiary errors that...

The Iraqi Presidency Council on Friday signed a provincial elections bill allowing for voting in most of the country early next year. The final version did not include a controversial clause that Staffan de Mistura [appointment...

The US House of Representatives on Friday passed a $700 billion financial rescue bill that President Bush quickly signed into law . The House approved the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008...

Nine US states and the Canadian province of Manitoba sued the US Environmental Protection Agency Thursday, alleging that an agency regulation allows the discharge of polluted water in violation of the Clean Water Act [text;...