Lawyers for Saddam Hussein have reached across the Atlantic in last-ditch legal bids to stop US authorities from handing their client over to Iraqi officials for expected execution . On Wednesday, UK-based Saddam defense lawyer Giovanni di Stefano...
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US media quoting unnamed US military and intelligence sources reported late Thursday that US authorities in Iraq will physically hand ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein over to Iraqi officials within 36 hours in...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Friday reduced by $2 billion a 1994 damages award against ExxonMobil corporation in respect of the sinking of the tanker Exxon Valdez, which caused a major Alaska oil spill [Anchorage...
A US federal judge ruled Friday that Iran is liable to pay $254 million in damages and compensation to families of American victims of a 1996 terrorist attack it helped finance on Khobar Towers , a...
A defense lawyer for imprisoned former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Friday that he and former business associate Platon Lebedev have been transferred from their Siberian penal colony in Chita Oblast [Wikipedia...
The US Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland has filed a new bankruptcy plan with the US Bankruptcy Court anticipating a payment of $75 million to settle outstanding sex abuse claims...
The US Department of Defense announced Sunday that it has transferred 17 more Guantanamo Bay detainees to their home countries for detention or release, bringing the number of detainees released from Guantanamo this year...
Six leading US and Japanese automakers Friday asked a federal judge to dismissal a California lawsuit alleging that vehicle emissions of greenhouse gases from cars made by the companies have contributed to global warming constituting a 'public...
US military sources in Iraq announced Saturday that earlier this month the Central Criminal Court of Iraq sentenced 16 security detainees accused of terrorism law breaches, illegal weapons possession and border breaches to punishments ranging from...
Organizers and observers of a Moscow rally held Saturday by a coalition of opposition parties protesting Russian President Vladimir Putin's increasingly-restrictive rights record were quoted in press reports Sunday as saying that police pulled...
