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Chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Carla Del Ponte challenged the European Union Friday to fund the war crimes court if UN monies runs dry before the...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday introduced plans to give small public US companies and some foreign companies additional time to comply with restrictive internal control requirements relating to financial...

China has approved stiffer penalties for people responsible for industrial accidents and white collar crimes, state media said on Friday. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) increased the maximum jail sentence from...

During a two-day European Union summit in Brussels , German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters Friday that attempts to revive the European Constitution will be delayed until 2008 and won't occur...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the High Court in London has recommended that the UK hacker behind unprecedented attacks on US military computer systems in late 2001 and early 2002 be extradited to the US to face criminal charges [US...

EU lawmakers now appear set to extend the ratification period for the European Constitution after rejection of the charter by voters in France and the Netherlands threw its status into doubt. On...

The Real ID Act passed the US Senate 100-0 late Tuesday as a rider on an $82B emergency supplemental appropriations bill funding military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. The controversial act...

Members of the Paris Club agreed Sunday to write-off $31 billion in Iraqi debt. All 19 members of the multinational group of creditor countries, which include France, Germany and the US, agreed to eliminate 80% of Iraq's $39 billion...