The government of Bangladesh plans to release certain inmates who have served half their prison sentences in order to reduce the country's overcrowded prison populations, Bangladeshi officials said Monday. The prisoner release plan comes...
The US Supreme Court handed down two decisions Monday, including Florida Dept. of Revenue v. Piccadilly Cafeterias , in which the Court ruled that a federal bankruptcy code provision [11...
Kosovo's new constitution went into effect Sunday despite a declaration by Serbian President Boris Tadic that the charter of the breakaway Serbian province was legally void. The constitution was adopted by the Assembly of Kosovo [official...
Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali", denied involvement in the killing of Shi'ite civilians at a demonstration during the reign of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Al-Majid is charged...
UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Sunday that parliament would continue the process to ratify the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon , despite an Irish referendum...
Officials from Pakistani co-ruling party Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will soon present an impeachment motion against President Pervez Musharraf, a PML-N MP told a National Assembly meeting Sunday. PML-N and coalition partner Pakistan People's Party...
The British military has held the last two Iraqis in its custody without charge or access to lawyers for five years, similar to US detentions at Guantanamo, lawyers for the men alleged in a report published in the Independent...
Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan told the Associated Press Sunday that despite the end of the "long march" the country's lawyers' movement will continue protesting for the reinstatement of...
The top judge in South Africa's Cape High Court accused judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Friday of political bias after they filed a complaint with the country's judicial disciplinary body earlier this...
Approximately 870 inmates escaped from the main prison in Kandahar City in southern Afghanistan Friday when members of the Taliban conducted a bomb and rocket attack. Prison officials said that nine police were killed. NATO's International...