An Italian court Monday dismissed false accounting charges against former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , ruling that the statute of limitations had expired. Prosecutors alleged that Berlusconi's broadcasting company, Mediaset [corporate website,...

Former Iraqi Deputy Health Minister Hakim al-Zamili and Brigadier General Hameed al-Shimmari will go to trial within days for allegedly channeling millions in government money to the Mehdi Army militia , Iraqi chief prosecutor Ghadanfar Mahmoud told AP...

Almost eight percent more hate crimes were reported in 2006 than the previous year, according to the 2006 Hate Crime Statistics released by the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Monday. Participating local law...

Pakistani authorities in Lahore and Balochistan Monday ordered the release of a number of lawyers arrested earlier this month for protesting President Pervez Musharraf's November 3 declaration of emergency rule. In Lahore, an anti-terrorism court judge granted...

The Israeli cabinet on Monday approved the release of 441 Palestinian prisoners as a gesture of good will toward Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in preparation for a US-sponsored peace conference , scheduled to begin at the...

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The Sapporo District Court in Japan dismissed a lawsuit Monday filed by 33 people who claimed that the deployment of Japanese troops in Iraq was unconstitutional. According to the Kyodo news agency, the group, which included the late former...

The Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus has agreed to pay $50 million to settle more than 100 claims of sexual abuse by its Jesuit priests in Alaska. The claims involved 13 or 14 priests and...

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Monday arrested former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan following his release from a hospital. Khieu Samphan, who suffered a stroke...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has sentenced former Rwandan mayor Juvenal Rugambarara to 11 years in prison. Rugambarara pleaded guilty in July to a single count of extermination, a...