The Iraqi Council of Representatives will likely consider this week two new draft reform bills attempting to solidify the nation's oil law , Energy Committee Chairman Abdul-Hadi al-Hassani said Saturday. Under the first draft law,...
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The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Thursday overturned class action certification for a lawsuit brought by "light" cigarette smokers against Philip Morris USA Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and other...
Turkish Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya said on Wednesday that critics of his decision to seek the disbanding of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) could face legal action. Yalcinkaya, who...
British national Simon Mann , accused of participating in an alleged coup attempt against Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in 2004, has accused Sir Mark Thatcher of...
A magistrate in Zimbabwe on Thursday handed down a six-month suspended jail sentence to the first white farmer convicted for refusing to vacate his farm after it was declared state property under Zimbabwe's farm seizure program...
The UN has raised sufficient funds to cover the first-year costs of an international tribunal with the mandate of investigating and trying suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , UN Legal...
Zimbabwean opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Sunday accused President Robert Mugabe of plotting to commit election fraud by printing millions of surplus ballot papers in advance of...
Attacks carried out by the Sudanese Army in four Darfur villages earlier this year constituted human rights violations, according to a report released Thursday by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) ....
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that a bid by the country's top prosecutor to disband his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and to bar him and...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday that an alleged top al-Qaeda operative has been transferred from CIA custody to Guantanamo Bay. Muhammad Rahim, a former messenger for Osama bin Laden said to have helped the...
