A medical officer in the UK's Royal Air Force has pleaded not guilty to charges that he failed to comply with a legal order for refusing to return to Iraq for a third tour of duty. Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith , who has dual British and New Zealand citizenship, refused to go back to Iraq [...]

Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Tuesday denied that he received or read several cables which were sent by diplomats and trade officials to warn the Australian government that the country's leading wheat exporter was paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime under the UN's now-defunct oil-for-food program . Downer joined Australian Trade Minister Mark [...]

The judge overseeing the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui ruled Monday that only the jury and other individuals present in the courtroom will be able to hear the cockpit tape of United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11 . In her order , US District Judge Leonie Brinkema wrote that "the [...]

A judge in Spain charged 29 individuals Tuesday for their involvement in the March 2004 Madrid train bombings . Judge Juan del Olmo charged five men with all 191 deaths in the bombings and 1,755 attempted murders, while 24 others were charged as accomplices. Over 100 suspects have been arrested throughout the investigation into the [...]

2005 Internet Crime Report, Internet Crime Complaint Center, April, 2006 . Excerpt: The IC3 report has outlined many of the current trends and patterns in Internet crime. The data indicates that fraud reports are increasing, with 231,493 complaints, in 2005, up from 207,449 complaints in 2004 and 124,515 in 2003. This total includes many different [...]

Democrats will ask a federal judge Tuesday to order Republican Party and White House officials to answer questions in response to a civil lawsuit alleging voter fraud committed during the 2002 New Hampshire phone jamming plot . During the trial of James Tobin , President Bush's 2004 campaign chairman for New England who was convicted [...]

A New York judge Monday imposed a 10-day jail sentence and a $1,000 fine for criminal contempt against transit union president Roger Toussaint , who called for an illegal strike in December 2005 that shut down New York's subways and buses. The judge will allow Toussaint to remain free for the next 30 days in [...]

A Moscow court ruled Monday that the Russian Human Rights Research Center , a major human rights umbrella group, will remain open despite increased government control over NGOs. The Russian Justice Ministry had requested that the court close down the Center based on claims that it had not filed reports on its activities in five [...]

US officials Monday denied a report by Seymour Hersh published in the New Yorker that the Bush administration is drawing up plans for military strikes against Iran that would use nuclear weapons to destroy the country's nuclear facilities and prevent Iran from gaining the capability to enrich uranium. President Bush said Monday the reports were [...]

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Nepal marched in the streets again on Monday for a fifth straight day to protest the direct rule government of King Gyanendra , defying curfews , tear gas and rubber bullets. Local press reports say that "scores" of protestors were injured and dozens arrested as they defied Gyanendra's ban on public meetings [...]