Former Argentine president Carlos Menem was indicted by the Federal Court on Tuesday on corruption charges. Menem is charged with overpaying government officials while he was in office from 1989 to...
The Russian Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the 2003 arrest of Platon Lebedev , business partner of former Yukos oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky , was illegal. The court agreed to...
An Argentine court on Tuesday sentenced former judge Victor Brusa to 21 years in prison for crimes against humanity during the country's 1976-83 "Dirty War" . The Federal Court of Santa Fe found Brusa guilty...
South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday charged former prime minister Han Myeong-sook with bribery. Han is accused of accepting USD $50,000 from former Korea Express CEO Kwak Young-wook in 2007 in exchange for helping him become president of Korea South-East...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that Microsoft infringed on a patent of Canadian company i4i ...
The state of Michigan on Monday filed suit in the US Supreme Court against the state of Illinois seeking to close two waterways that allow invasive Asian carp to reach...
i4i Limited Partnership, et al. v. Microsoft, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, December 22, 2009 [affirming a lower court ruling that Microsoft infringed on a patent of Canadian company i4i with portions of its Word 2007 word-processing...
The Lithuanian Parliament National Security Committee reported Tuesday that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established two secret prisons for al Qaeda suspects in the Baltic country. Lawmakers demanded the...
Beijing police issued a formal arrest warrant Monday for a man who organized a website for parents whose children became ill from drinking tainted milk last year. Zhao Lianhai has been charged with picking...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Bosnia's constitution illegally discriminates against ethnic minorities by not allowing them to run for high political office. The Bosnian Constitution distinguishes between...