Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon Thursday ordered the exhumation of 19 mass graves in Spain, launching an investigation into the disappearances of tens of thousands of people beginning in the Spanish Civil War ,...
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The FBI is investigating allegations of voter registration fraud involving the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) ahead of the November presidential election. According to senior law enforcement officials quoted by AP Thursday, the FBI...
Vietnam's Hanoi People's Court on Wednesday sentenced journalist Nguyen Viet Chien of Thanh Nien news agency to two years in prison for "abusing democratic freedoms" to infringe state interests for his reporting on the so-called PMU 18...
US insurance giant American International Group (AIG) is lobbying state governments to relax strict, recently enacted rules designed to provide greater oversight of the mortgage lending industry, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The rules are contained...
The Pakistani cabinet led by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani Wednesday approved changes to a statute governing the country's lawyers and endorsed a draft bill that would establish a new National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR)....
A commission established to investigate the political and ethnic violence that followed Kenya's disputed December 2007 presidential election released a report on Wednesday recommending the establishment of an international tribunal to try suspected perpetrators....
US President George W. Bush on Tuesday signed a bill designed to further insulate federal inspectors general (IGs) from political interference. The Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 is the latest in a series of...
A judge on the Constitutional Court of Italy on Wednesday suspended the trial of 26 Americans and five former Italian intelligence officials for the 2003 abduction and rendition of...
An urgent effort by the Bush administration to transfer 17 Guantanamo detainees outside the US has stalled as a result of a bitter interagency dispute, according to a New York Times report on Wednesday. Last week, US District Judge...
US and Iraqi negotiators Wednesday agreed on a draft for a Status of Forces Agreement that gives Iraqi courts limited jurisdiction over American military personnel. According to Iraqi officials quoted by AP Wednesday, the draft agreement requires...
