The UK House of Commons Wednesday voted 311-248 against putting ratification of the new EU reform treaty , properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon , to a public vote, thereby rejecting proposals for...
US District Judge Adalberto Jordan of the Southern District of Florida Tuesday ordered former Peruvian military official Maj. Telmo Ricardo Hurtado to pay $37 million in damages to two survivors of the 1985 Accomarca...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour told members of her staff Wednesday that she will not seek a second term when her four-year commission ends on June 30, confirming a Monday report ...
The number of discrimination charges against private employers filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) increased by nine percent in 2007 , the biggest annual increase since the early 1990s, according to EEOC statistics...
FBI Director Robert Mueller told the US Senate Judiciary Committee in testimony Wednesday that the FBI had inappropriately accessed private citizens' communication and financial records in 2006 through national security letters (NSLs) [FAS backgrounder; example,...
A former Bosnian Serb leader who was convicted in 2004 of war crimes committed during the Bosnian War has been transferred to a Danish prison, a Danish Ministry of Justice spokesman...
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe declared Tuesday that his country would bring charges against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the International Criminal Court (ICC) for allegedly "sponsoring and financing...
A Pakistani court Wednesday dropped five graft cases against Asif Ali Zardari , the new leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and widower of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ....
The head of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday refused to disclose a timeline for the agency's compliance with last year's Supreme Court ruling that the EPA has the authority under the Clean...
Ass'n of Am. Physicians & Surgeons, Inc. et al., v. Food & Drug Admin., et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, March 4, 2008 [dismessing a lawsuit seeking to overturn the FDA's 2006 decision to approve over-the-counter...