Libya court postpones ruling on medics accused of infecting children with HIV
The Libyan Supreme Court has postponed until November 15 a ruling on the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were convicted in May 2004 of purposely infecting 400 children with the virus that...
Members of an Alabama jury apparently split over whether to convict former HealthSouth Corp. CEO Richard M. Scrushy have agreed to add an hour of work to their daily deliberations, according to a...
The Johannesburg High Court has banned the release of a newspaper article revealing a corruption scandal involving the nation's ruling African National Congress (ANC) , requiring South Africa's leading independant newspaper, the Mail and Guardian ,...
No consensus reached on bid to expand FBI Patriot Act powers
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was unable to come to a final agreement Thursday regarding an FBI proposal for increased power to seize records and mailings in terror investigations under the USA Patriot...
Search warrants executed in probe of LexisNexis records breach
Nine individuals have been served search warrants as part of the federal investigation into the theft of over 300,000 personal records taken during a digital break-in of LexisNexis Inc. disclosed earlier this year. Personal computers...
Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced Saturday that the country's legislature has adopted a new constitution to replace the transitional document agreed to in South Africa in 2002...
British election officials demand postal vote safeguards after third Labour victory
Despite a low 61% turnout and an undisputed third-term victory for Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour Party in Thursday's UK election, officials from the UK Electoral Commission [official...
Former Army Sgt. Erik Saar, who served as a Guantanamo Bay translator, told CBS's 60 Minutes that prisoner interrogations were staged to give visiting congressmen, senators and generals the impression that valuable...
New leaked document shows UK AG reservation on Iraq war legality
A document leaked to the BBC has raised new questions about the nature of the legal advice UK Prime Minister Tony Blair received from his Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, on the eve of the Iraq war. The document ,...
Ellen Podgor :"In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court issued an extremely narrow decision favorable to the government in the case of Pasquantino v. United States. Justice Thomas, delivering the opinion of the...
