In Tuesday's environmental law news, an Indonesian court heard arguments Tuesday on whether it should proceed with a criminal trial of US-based Newmont Mining Corp. for alleged pollution in Buyat Bay. The hearing had been postponed in...

Leading Tuesday's states brief, a North Carolina court of appeals has ruled that promotional game pieces packaged with telephone long-distance cards are not part of an illegal lottery. State officials claimed that Treasured Arts, Inc.'s long-distance telephone cards...

The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court has overturned a lower court decision allowing rights groups to monitor polling stations during the country's first multi-candidate presidential elections on Wednesday. The holding, in which the court ruled that the Presidential...

UN diplomats continued feverish negotiations Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to prepare a coherent platform of agreed reforms in time for the World Summit 2005 , but an impasse persists with only days remaining. In the most recent...

Morgan Stanley has agreed to a $700,000 settlement over claims of improper trading in a couple's brokerage account, the Delaware Department of Justice said Tuesday. According to a 2003 complaint filed by the Securities Division...

US and international human rights groups Tuesday condemned the failure of authorities to protect victims of Hurricane Katrina who were left for days without relief in increasingly desperate conditions in New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf...

Several US Supreme Court justices and many other Americans lined the Great Hall of the nation's high court Tuesday to pay final respects to the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist . Rehnquist's flag-draped casket...

US Senator Arlen Specter , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-author of a bill to create a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund, said Tuesday that he hoped the Senate would take up the legislation in early...

Rwandan Army Major-General Laurent Munyakazi has been arrested on charges relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide , a court official said Tuesday. Munyakazi's arrest was ordered by a local gacaca court , a community-based court comprised largely...

The final report of the Independent Inquiry Committee investigating the now defunct UN Oil-for-Food program will show that corruption and inefficiencies lead to the program's failure, according to an advanced copy obtained...