Apple Inc. and Apple Corps Ltd. , the record label owned by the Beatles and their families, announced Monday they have reached a new compromise that replaces their 1991 trademark agreement and resolves...

Eight former Bangladeshi ministers face allegations of corruption Monday after Bangladeshi security forces arrested 13 former ministers and senior politicians in raids in Dhaka Sunday. The government cited recently promulgated emergency powers as the basis for the...

French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy Monday cautioned countries against the illegal and unacceptable use of child soldiers in armed conflicts at the opening of Free Children from War , a two-day global conference in Paris drawing...

French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy warned Monday against apologizing for crimes committed during France's colonization of Algeria. His comments came in response to remarks made Sunday by prominent a French Socialist Party (PS) leader who...

Two human rights lawyers in Vietnam were ordered to return to a police station for additional questioning Monday after they were detained over the weekend for hosting a discussion on human rights law. Nguyen Van Dai...

The chairman of Hyundai Motors Group was convicted Monday of embezzling company funds and allegedly using secret accounts to bribe politicians in South Korea . Chung Mong-koo received a three-year prison...

Russian prosecutors have brought new money laundering charges against former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky , his lawyers said Monday. Khodorkovsky was convicted in May 2005 of tax evasion [JURIST...

A prominent French Socialist Party (PS) leader called Sunday for France to recognize its crimes in colonial Algeria , including the alleged massacres of 45,000 Algerians demanding independence at the end of World War II,...

Kuwaiti draft legislation broadening women's rights was approved by a parliamentary panel Sunday and will likely be debated in the house in the next two months. The panel's head, MP Saleh Ashour [Kuwait Politics Database profile, in English and...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad introduced Gholam Hossein Elham as his candidate for justice minister to the parliament Sunday. Elham, a strong supporter of Ahmadinejad, currently works as official spokesperson for the...