Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have said that a program providing temporary housing to victims of Hurricane Katrina could resume this week. US District Judge Richard Leon last month ordered [PDF...
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Turkish writer Ipek Calislar was found not guilty Tuesday of "insulting the Turkish identity" in violation of Article 301 of the country's penal code. Calislar went on trial in October for writing that the founder...
Romanian President Traian Basescu has told the country's parliament that the "criminal and illegitimate" former Communist regime committed massive human rights violations and crimes against humanity , killing and persecuting as many as...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday ordered his administration to "correct court-identified deficiencies in California's lethal injection protocol to ensure the death penalty procedure is constitutional." In a memorandum of intended decision issued...
Five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were convicted and sentenced to death Tuesday for knowingly infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus. This is the second time a Libyan court has convicted the medics;...
Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, Federal Bureau of Investigation, December 18, 2006 . Read the...
Thirteen men arrested last year in Australia's largest counter-terrorism raid pleaded not guilty to the charges against them during a pre-trial hearing Monday. Eighteen suspects were arrested in raids in Sydney and Melbourne and were charged with...
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) filed a notice of charges Monday against three former Fannie Mae executives over their role in fraudulently reporting future earnings so that...
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning said Monday that he will appeal last week's federal appeals court ruling striking down the state's corporate farming ban to the US Supreme Court. Although Bruning...
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has urged countries to sign and ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families in order "to provide all migrants with the rights...
