A New York appeals court has upheld a jury's finding that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was negligent in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by Islamic...

The Grand National Assembly of Turkey voted Wednesday in favor of restricting the controversial Article 301 of the country's penal code , which makes "insulting the Turkish identity"...

US law firm Milberg LLP , formerly Milberg Weiss, is in negotiations with federal prosecutors to settle accusations related to an alleged kickback scheme, sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The firm pleaded not guilty in 2006...

Zimbabwean police Tuesday released several hundred opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) supporters detained after police raids last week. Twenty-nine women and children were released almost immediately last week, while the rest were released Tuesday...

US District Judge James Robertson said Monday in a court hearing that he would set a dollar figure on the US government's alleged mismanagement of trust funds for a group of some 500,000 Native Americans in...

Lawyers in China are subject to increasing persecution and intimidation by the Chinese government, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report found that rights lawyers working on cases...

The trial of former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz and seven co-defendants began at the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad on Tuesday. Aziz, deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein's regime, and...

A Chinese court sentenced 30 people to prison Tuesday for their roles in protests against Chinese rule in Tibet last month. Three men received life sentences, including a Buddhist monk accused of destroying government property and leading...

Pojamarn Shinawatra, the wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra , on Tuesday entered a written plea of not guilty to corruption and fraud charges before the Thai Supreme Court. Pojamarn challenged the legitimacy...

Civil rights lawyer Jonathan Feinberg filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of 11 inmates challenging the "unconstitutional conditions" in which inmates are currently being held at four Philadelphia jails. US District Judge R. Barclay Surrick of the...