Leading Thursday's environmental law news, the US Senate defeated a budget amendment by a 51-48 vote that would have removed drilling authority for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR) . The budget bill itself is expected...

In response to what has been described as the "slow pace" by which the Food and Drug Administration is acting to approve the so-called "morning after pill" for over-the-counter sale, a bipartisan group of US representatives on...

South African oil company Imvume on Thursday announced plans to file a lawsuit against UN's Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) in response to its allegations that the company provided illegal kick-backs to the Iraqi government in the now...

A former top US State Department official has charged that US Vice President Dick Cheney and his staff were responsible for directives leading to abuse of detainees by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Halliburton and its subsidiaries have failed to pay their workers in Iraq and Kuwait millions of dollars in overtime in violation of its contracts with the US Army, five workers alleged in a federal...

Indonesian Justice Minister Hamid Awaluddin said Thursday that Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir will not have his prison sentence reduced to mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Bashir, imprisoned for his role...

An all-male jury of four officers and four enlisted personnel has been selected in the trial of a US Army reservist accused of attacking a detainee at an Afghanistan detention center and then lying about his actions, Fort Bliss...

Former media magnate Conrad Black is suing the US government, alleging the Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly seized nearly $9 million of his money. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Chicago, Black claimed the funds...

Five Kuwaiti citizens have been released from the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay , Kuwait Foreign Ministry officials confirmed Thursday. The five men are among 11 Kuwaitis who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo for...

A UK judge has directed court-martial panel members to issue a 'not guilty' verdict for all seven British soldiers charged with the murdering an Iraqi civilian in southern Iraq. The seven paratroopers were accused of killing an...