Former Russian nuclear minister Yevgeny Adamov suffered from a heart attack Thursday while in custody on fraud and abuse of office charges. Adamov's lawyers told Interfax news that although Adamov has received...
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Kenya's National Assembly has unanimously approved a sex-crimes law after a month of heated debate over several controversial provisions, most of which were dropped in order to pass the bill . Legislators dropped provisions criminalizing marital rape and...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday condemned the conviction and imprisonment on last week of 13 Chinese villagers who participated in a riot in Dongzhou last December. The 13 villagers were...
Umer Hayat, who was accused of lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about his son's terrorism-related activities, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a lesser charge of trying to smuggle $28,000 in cash into Pakistan three years ago....
The United States has again suspended $7 million government-to-government aid to Serbia for failing to turn over Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic . This is the fourth year in a row that the...
The New York Court of Appeals , the state's highest court, heard oral arguments Wednesday on whether the court should overturn the state's 97-year old statute defining marriage as a union between a man and a...
A Spanish judge asked the Spanish Constitutional Court on Wednesday to reopen an investigation into corruption charges against former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stemming from Berlusconi's holdings in Spanish television channel Telecinco...
The Thailand Supreme Court on Wednesday stepped up its efforts to pressure Thailand's Election Commission (EC) to resign over failed parliamentary elections in April, which the Constitutional Court annulled in early May, by...
Shortly after a meeting with President Bush, new Iraqi ambassador to the United States and former Iraq ambassador to the United Nations Samir al-Sumaida'ie said in a CNN interview Tuesday that US Marines intentionally killed ...
A US magistrate judge ruled Tuesday that US Department of Justice employees must disclose whether they were aware of the government monitoring conversations between Sept. 11 detainees and their attorneys. The judge's ruling comes in a lawsuit...
