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...
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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...
Chile's Supreme Court Wednesday sentenced five former Chilean military officers for their role in the killing of five leftist political opponents as part of the so-called "Caravan of Death" in October 1973. General...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases, including Waddington v. Sarausad , 07-772, in which the Court will consider whether a ruling ...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday upheld a district court order requiring Ohio's secretary of state to establish a system that allows county elections boards to confirm newly registered voters'...
