Approximately 40 inmates in a Tanzania prison awaiting trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) began a hunger strike Monday to protest the planned transfer of three ICTR cases to the national courts of Rwanda....
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied without comment the petition for certiorari filed by Khaled el-Masri against the US government, ostensibly supporting the Bush administration's contention that allowing el-Masri's lawsuit [complaint,...
The Iraqi government intends to oust Blackwater USA , the private security firm involved in a September shooting incident , from its borders over the next six months, according to a report complied by Iraqi authorities and...
European laws need to be strengthened in order to more effectively fight organized crime throughout Europe, Italian prosecutor Nicola Gratteri said Monday. Gratteri is investigating the August slayings of six Italians in Duisburg, Germany , widely believed to...
Serbian police arrested 56 neo-Nazis for protesting the potential independence of Kosovo from Serbia despite a ban against their planned demonstration, Serbian police said Monday. The arrests were made after fighting broke out Sunday between the...
American Electric Power (AEP) has settled a lawsuit for $4.6 billion with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , 12 environmental groups and eight northeastern states. The settlement is expected to be formally announced Tuesday, the same...
Opponents of an Oregon law that would allow same-sex couples to enter into contractual domestic partnerships with the same state benefits as married couples did not get enough signatures to block the law...
Current Pakistani president and military leader General Pervez Musharraf appointed General Ashfaq Kiyani as new deputy army chief Monday, in an apparent consummation of his promise to step down as head of the country's military...
Intel has asked the European Commission (EC) to extend its October 8 deadline to respond to antitrust accusations prepared by the EC in July over Intel's price and rebate tactics, which...
A Bangladesh court Monday convicted former Home Minister Mohammed Nasim of corruption and sentenced him to 13 years in jail. Nasim's wife was also sentenced in absentia to three years for aiding her husband in accumulating property through "dishonest...