UN diplomats continued feverish negotiations Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to prepare a coherent platform of agreed reforms in time for the World Summit 2005 , but an impasse persists with only days remaining. In the most recent...
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Morgan Stanley has agreed to a $700,000 settlement over claims of improper trading in a couple's brokerage account, the Delaware Department of Justice said Tuesday. According to a 2003 complaint filed by the Securities Division...
US and international human rights groups Tuesday condemned the failure of authorities to protect victims of Hurricane Katrina who were left for days without relief in increasingly desperate conditions in New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf...
Several US Supreme Court justices and many other Americans lined the Great Hall of the nation's high court Tuesday to pay final respects to the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist . Rehnquist's flag-draped casket...
US Senator Arlen Specter , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-author of a bill to create a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund, said Tuesday that he hoped the Senate would take up the legislation in early...
Rwandan Army Major-General Laurent Munyakazi has been arrested on charges relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide , a court official said Tuesday. Munyakazi's arrest was ordered by a local gacaca court , a community-based court comprised largely...
The final report of the Independent Inquiry Committee investigating the now defunct UN Oil-for-Food program will show that corruption and inefficiencies lead to the program's failure, according to an advanced copy obtained...
Members of the Philippines House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to dismiss all three impeachment charges against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo , echoing the decision last week of the...
AP is reporting that the Senate will begin confirmation hearings next Monday on the nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the US. The Senate Judiciary Committee was originally scheduled to begin its...
A spokesman for the Independent Egyptian Committee for Monitoring Elections (IECME) alleged Monday that Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) committed more rule violations in campaigning for the upcoming presidential election than any of the...
