Australian officials Tuesday announced a new series of anti-terror raids in Sydney and Melbourne, re-igniting a debate over the country's tough anti-terrorism laws. No arrests were made or individuals detained as a result of the second sweep in a...
According to a senior United Nations official, top Kyrgyz officials promised Monday not to forcibly deport Uzbek refugees who fled a bloody May uprising in Andijan . Approximately 450 of the 500 Uzbeks who originally fled to Kyrgyzstan...
Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) announced Tuesday that it has filed a federal anti-trust lawsuit against rival chip-maker Intel . The suit was filed yesterday in US District...
Nepal's anti-corruption panel has cleared ex-prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and six former ministers of charges of misusing funds. According to a spokesman for the corruption commission, there was not enough evidence to find the accused guilty....
An American-born Israeli soldier who refused to participate in the evacuation of settlers from Gaza will face a disciplinary hearing on Tuesday, pending a possible continuance by his lawyer. Cpl. Avi Bieber was pulled away by...
A Milan judge Tuesday sentenced 11 men to up to two and a half years in jail for their roles in one of Europe's biggest financial scandals, the 2003 collapse of Parmalat . Based...
A Muslim Russian national held at Guantanamo from summer 2002 to February 2004 has filed a lawsuit against the US government alleging rights abuses. At a press conference on Tuesday in Moscow Airat Vakhitov - formerly...
Pakistan's Supreme Court Tuesday overturned the acquittals of 13 men in a gang-rape case and ordered them re-arrested after an appeal by the victim, Mukhtar Mai . The attack was supposedly ordered by village elders in...
National Cable and Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, et al.; FCC v. Brand X Internet Services, et al., Supreme Court of the United States, June 27, 2005 [ruling 6-3 that broadband cable modem companies are allowed to keep...
Castle Rock v. Gonzales, Supreme Court of the United States, June 27, 2005 [ruling 7-2 that a woman whose estranged husband murdered her three children did not have a constitutional right to police enforcement of the restraining order in place...