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Former NatWest bankers David Bermingham, Giles Darby and Gary Mulgrew, pleaded not guilty Friday to a total of seven counts of wire fraud for an allegedly fraudulent sale of Enron stock. The bankers were extradited...

US Marshals took custody of three former NatWest bankers Thursday as the controversial extradition of the three British nationals went ahead as scheduled. Giles Darby, David Bermingham and Gary Mulgrew will face seven counts of wire fraud...

US President George Bush has said he will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin that non-governmental organizations should be able to function "without intimidation" and that Russia needs to have an "active civil society"...

Belarus prosecutors have requested a six-to-10-year sentence for opposition politician Alexander Kozulin , who in March led what prosecutors say were unauthorized protests over the controversial re-election of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko...

The US military revealed Wednesday that Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants are five days into a hunger strike in protest of trial court procedures and the killings of three of their defense lawyers, which...

British Members of Parliament voted to adjourn the House of Commons early Wednesday in protest against the pending extradition of three British NatWest bankers to the US to face charges in the Enron fraud scandal [JURIST news...

Indonesia's House of Representatives has passed a bill giving more autonomy to Aceh province and writing into law the terms of last year's peace agreement with rebels . But former...

The parliament of Egypt passed a new press law on Monday but removed a particularly controversial provision that would have allowed journalists to be imprisoned for reporting on alleged financial impropriety by public officials. Still, journalists...

Twenty-five independent and opposition newspapers in Egypt refrained from publishing on Sunday in a pre-planned strike designed to protest the lack of legal protection afforded to journalists as reflected in a draft press law...

Tariq Aziz , the Iraqi deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, has gone on hunger strike to protest the refusal of prison authorities to grant him access to his lawyer, a member of his...