Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky announced Thursday after a meeting with prosecutors in Moscow that no new charges had been filed against the former Yukos CEO. Earlier, local media had reported that new money laundering charges were going to be announced when lawyers were summoned to the detention facility where Khodorkovsky is being held.

An Al-Qaeda group in Iraq has claimed to have executed Eyhab al-Sharif, Egypt's top ambassador to Iraq. He was kidnapped on Saturday shortly after arriving in Baghdad as the first envoy from a major Arab state to the new Iraqi government, and would be the first high-level foreign diplomat to be killed by insurgents. A [...]

New York Times reporter Judith Miller , who was ordered jailed for contempt after refusing to reveal a source in conjunction with a federal criminal investigation into an intelligence leak, is at the Alexandria Detention Facility in Alexandria, Virginia, after being brought to the facility late Wednesday. The jail, touted as a "New Generation" facility, [...]

Indonesia's highest court Thursday rejected a challenge from environmental groups and upheld a law enabling 13 mining companies to operate in protected forests. The Constitutional Court ruled that the law did not violate the 1945 constitution and that the government must honor commitments to the companies . Such mining was banned in 1999 but in [...]

AP is reporting that the US terror alert level will be raised to code orange for mass transit in the wake of London explosions, according to US officials. 12:37 PM ET – The UN Security Council has been called into emergency consultative session on the London bombings, and a formal public meeting may follow later [...]

US Defense Department officials Wednesday required CNN to erase any footage that might allow Guantanamo prisoners to be identified during a recent visit . Taking up a challenge to reporters from President Bush to come see the facility amidst allegations of abuse, CNN's visit was also frustrated by a prohibition against speaking to any prisoners [...]

Lawyers for US Army Pfc. Lynndie England will request at a pretrial hearing Thursday that Judge Col. James Pohl be removed from the case. Pohl had presided over England's first trial, in which he threw out her guilty plea after her statements were contradicted by those made by former boyfriend Pvt. Charles Graner Jr. , [...]

A civil trial of American Electric Power , the nation's biggest power company, opened Wednesday on charges by the government and eight states that it had violated the Clean Air Act . The suit against AEP alleges violations in connection with modifications made to power plants that didn't include the installation of pollution-reduction devices. Similar [...]

Myanmar's military government announced Thursday that it had released 400 prisoners but refused to name them. The majority of those released are believed to be political prisoners, many of whom are tied to the National League of Democracy party of Aung San Suu Kyi . UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for the lifting of all [...]

A federal judge in Chicago dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking reparations from several companies that benefitted or profited from slavery prior to its abolition. US District Judge Charles R. Norgle ruled that a geneological tie was not enough to show injury, that the suit was brought too late, and finally that the issue is [...]