The Russian Supreme Court Friday ordered the release of former Russian nuclear energy minister Yevgeny Adamov pending trial for allegedly diverting funds equivalent to hundreds of millions of dollars to his personal use and...

Charges have been dropped against a Pennsylvania National Guardsman accused in the February 15 shooting death of an Iraqi civilian near a US military base at Ramadi , a city west of Baghdad. Prosecutors recommended...

Kuwait's high court Saturday upheld a May lower court decision acquitting five Kuwaiti citizens formerly held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay of alleged connections with al Qaeda. The five men were...

A spokesman for Mexican President Vicente Fox said Friday that citizens should show respect for the law as the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary continues to evaluate the results of...

A new federal lawsuit has been filed against banned American military contractor Custer Battles and two former Pentagon officials alleging that the defendants tried to bypass a suspension order against the contractor by setting up shell companies...

The US Court of International Trade ruled Friday that the US must abide by a North American Free Trade Agreement panel ruling that improper duties were levied on Canadian softwood lumber used in US...

The last individual believed to have been still in detention after a US immigration and security sweep picked up some 1200 mostly Arab and Muslim men following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks ...

Israel found itself on the defensive with the United States as its most vocal ally in a Friday UN Security Council open meeting in which ambassadors from the Arab world and beyond condemned it for breaching international...

Six high-level UN human rights officials Friday urged all parties in the Middle East conflict to respect and protect the rights of civilians eight days after the conflict spread to Lebanon. UN rights rapporteurs and representatives on internally displaced...

Christine Chanet , the chair of the UN Human Rights Committee , criticized the United States in comments to reporters Friday, accusing the US of avoiding its duty to submit to hearings regarding US conformity to the...