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...

Energy company Kinder Morgan Bulk Terminals (KMBT) was sentenced Wednesday for its improper disposal of potash (potassium chloride) in violation of the Ocean Dumping Act . In 2003, a KMBT employee dumped 160 metric tons of potash...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held Wednesday that publisher Penguin Group will retain the right to publish ten John Steinbeck novels. The heirs involved in this copyright...

California's court-appointed prison medical overseer J. Clark Kelso has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to force the state to pay $8 billion over the next five years to improve...

Thailand Supreme Court vice president Krairiksh Kasemsant and army General Anupong Paochinda on Wednesday said there was no evidence to support accusations by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra that the country's judiciary is biased...

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf should resign from office immediately, US Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) said in a statement released on Monday. The same day that Pakistan's Punjab Provincial Assembly voted...

Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office, said Wednesday that his staff is collecting evidence of war crimes allegedly committed by Georgian forces in the breakaway region of South Ossetia . European Union leaders are...

French judges have launched an investigation into torture allegations by a Palestinian doctor who was detained in Libya for eight years after being accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV, a judicial official said...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Wyoming on Tuesday granted the state an injunction prohibiting the National Forest Service (NFS) from enforcing a 2001 rule prohibiting the...