The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday refused to grant a writ of habeas corpus to convicted murder Khristian Oliver , who had argued that his Sixth and Eighth Amendment...

The United States and Libya reached an agreement on Thursday to settle all pending lawsuits brought by US terror victims against Libya, including 26 lawsuits related to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am...

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday agreed to an en banc rehearing of a case brought by Canadian citizen Maher Arar seeking a declaratory judgment against...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Wednesday that it has reached a tentative agreement with ten US stock exchanges to centralize insider trading controls among the institutions. Under the plan, the programs...

A New Orleans judge on Wednesday threw out indictments against the so-called "Danziger Seven" , police officers accused of murder in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina . District Judge Raymond Bigelow ruled that prosecutors had violated...

Indonesia's Constitutional Court has accepted a death penalty challenge filed by three men condemned for their roles in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings . Mukhlas, Imam Samudra and Amrozi Nurhasyim argue that death by firing squad...

Georgia filed a complaint against Russia with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday, alleging that invading Russian troops have engaged in murder, rape and mass displacement of civilians during the...

Malaysian Tourism Promotion Board head Mirza Mohammad Taiyab on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to corruption charges based on allegations that he received free dental work in return for granting a government contract. His indictment is...

Nigeria officially turned over the entirety of the disputed Bakassi peninsula to neighboring Cameroon on Thursday, in compliance with a 2002 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling . Basing its ruling on an old colonial agreement...

US Army Gen. Gregory Zanetti , deputy commander at Guantanamo Bay, testified Wednesday that military commissions legal advisor Gen. Thomas Hartmann routinely bullied his counterparts and was inappropriately aggressive in...