A Texas oil baron pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he paid millions in bribes to Iraqi officials in connection with the UN oil-for-food scandal. David Chalmers, owner of Bayoil USA Inc and Bayoil Supply and Trading Ltd, pleaded...
The government of the Netherlands reached an agreement with the United Nations Friday to host the ad hoc tribunal that will investigate and try suspects involved in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Friday revoked a previous order transferring the case against 1994 Rwandan genocide suspect Michel Bagaragaza to a local court in the Netherlands. In addition...
Interpol issued a red notice Friday seeking the arrest of Raghad Saddam Hussein , daughter of the former Iraqi dictator, on charges of terrorism. Interpol circulated the notice to member countries, saying Iraq accuses...
An Iranian court has issued a summons for five Argentinean officials, accusing them of fabricating a case against Iran in the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish Community Center , Iranian media reported Thursday. The Argentineans were...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an appeal with the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Friday contesting a DC District Court decision allowing organic food company Whole Foods Market to buy rival...
The US Army Corps of Engineers argued Thursday that it cannot be sued for negligence over the collapse of a flood wall and levee caused by Hurricane Katrina because the Flood Control Act of...
A Pakistani court ruled Friday that government prosecutors may reopen their investigation into alleged corruption committed by exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif , dealing a blow to Sharif's bid to return to Pakistan. Sharif, exiled for 10...
Federal Trade Commission v. Whole Foods Market, Inc., and Wild Oats Markets, Inc., US District Court for the District of Columbia, August 16, 2007 . Read the...
A German court announced the parole of former Red Army Faction member Eva Haule on Friday, saying that the court believed that Haule no longer viewed violence as an appropriate method of furthering political agendas and thus...