Canadian government leaders reached an agreement with Nova Scotian officials on Sunday which requires the Canadian government to pay the province $235 million CAD for lost profits from prior government offshore oil and gas...

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo applied for an arrest warrant Monday for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, and...

The Supreme Court of Switzerland Monday ruled that Doctors without Borders (MSF) must repay the Dutch government for its share of a ransom paid to secure the release of a MSF official. MSF's...

A former vice president for Hewlett Packard (HP) pleaded guilty Friday to one count of theft of trade secrets for giving HP protected information he obtained while working for IBM [corporate...

The French Council of State has denied a Moroccan-born Muslim woman's citizenship application because she failed to assimilate to French culture and she practices a type of Islam found incompatible with...

French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday that officials will have to adjust the final declaration  of a Paris Mediterranean summit because of a disagreement between Israelis and Palestinians on how Israel [JURIST news...

Turkish prosecutors indicted 86 alleged members of the secular Ergenekon group Monday for allegedly attempting to destabilize and overthrow the country's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) . The group is believed responsible for bombing the...

Sudan has asked the Arab League to convene emergency crisis talks concerning a possible International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . The Arab League...

China executed two members of the Chinese Uighur Muslim ethnic minority last week, according to a report from US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) . According to the report , the two Uighurs, Mukhtar Setiwalki...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday told members of the Russian lower house of parliament, the State Duma , that he will sign newly-prepared anti-corruption legislation in the near future. Medvedev,...