Iranian prosecutors have charged First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi with embezzling money, judiciary spokesperson Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi announced Monday. The spokesperson said he expects the case to go to trial . Conservative lawmakers say they have...
Toyota Motor Corporation settled US federal investigations on Tuesday by agreeing to pay a record $32.4 million in extra fines for product defects and poor handling of a recall. The fines stem from two...
The war crimes court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Tuesday convicted four former Bosnian Serb policemen of killing at least 150 civilians during the 1992-1995 Bosnian civil war . The...
The National Assembly of Venezuela on Monday passed the Social Responsibility Law , which bans Internet content that promotes unrest among citizens or challenges legally established authorities. The law expands 2004 restrictions...
The number of executions that took place in the US in 2010 was down 12 percent from 2009, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) annual report released Tuesday. There were...
Belarusian police arrested hundreds of demonstrators on Monday, including seven of the nine presidential candidates, who were protesting the results of Sunday's presidential election . The official results, announced Monday, declared incumbent Alexander Lukashenko [BBC profile,...
The FBI's preliminary annual crime statistics for 2010, released on Monday, show a decrease in violent crime for the fourth year in a row. According to the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report of 2010 , the number...
The Sri Lankan Ministry of External Affairs announced Saturday that a UN war crimes panel will be allowed to visit the island to look into alleged war crimes in the final stages of the conflict...
Ukrainian prosecutors on Monday filed criminal charges against opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for allegedly misappropriating state funds during her time in office from 2007-2010. Tymoshenko, whose...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Friday dropped a lawsuit challenging the US government's Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) licensing scheme after the government changed...