Alabama Attorney General Troy King on Thursday filed a lawsuit against BP for damages to the state's coast and economy, claiming that the oil giant has failed in its efforts to accept responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon...
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Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday issued a report calling on the UK government to end the use of control orders issued against terrorism suspect. The UK Home Secretary uses control orders...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday refused to issue a stay pending appeal on last week's decision overturning Proposition 8, the California ban on same-sex marriage...
The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) sent an open letter to South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday expressing concerns over plans by the African National Congress (ANC) to create...
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday filed a legal challenge to the Obama administration's new offshore drilling moratorium , claiming it violates federal law. The complaint, filed in the US District...
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Wednesday unanimously dismissed a lawsuit challenging the exclusion of materials questioning the Armenian genocide from a school...
The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced Wednesday that it will conduct an investigation into the May flotilla incident , in which Israeli forces raided several Turkish ships bound for the blockaded Gaza...
A US military jury on Wednesday recommended a 14-year sentence for Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi . Al Qosi agreed to a plea deal Tuesday after pleading guilty...
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum (R) on Wednesday proposed tougher laws against illegal immigrants. McCollum unveiled a draft of the new legislation, which goes "one step further" than a controversial Arizona immigration law [SB 1070...
A Sri Lankan government-backed commission investigating the events surrounding the island nation's civil war opened its first public hearings on Wednesday. The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), appointed in May by...
