A spokesman for South Africa's National Prosecution Authority announced Monday that former South African deputy president Jacob Zuma will be charged with two counts of corruption. After one of Zuma's advisors, South African businessman Schabir...
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Human rights watchdog group Amnesty International released a new report Monday detailing and assailing the UK's detention of asylum seekers, which it said is "inappropriate, unnecessary, disproportionate and, therefore, unlawful" and has led to mental illness and...
The CEO of CardSystems Solutions Inc. , the corporation responsible for a security breach that may have left up to 40 million credit card owners vulnerable to credit card fraud and identity theft, said Monday that...
Two reformist newspapers in Iran have been banned after publishing a letter from defeated opposition candidate Mehdi Karoubi claiming the first round of presidential elections was rigged . The Aftab Daily and the Eghbal...
Ten men have gone to trial so far in Sudan on charges of rape and robbery in the troubled Darfur region , according to the head of Sudan's special court , which began proceedings...
Former President Bill Clinton said in a Financial Times interview published Monday that the US government should "close down or clean up" Guantanamo Bay prison . On the weekend leading GOP Senator John McCain also pressed for...
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that police at roadside DUI checkpoints do not have to inform suspects of their right to legal counsel before asking them whether or not they had been drinking or...
British millionaire Friedhelm Eronat has been awarded oil rights for the Darfur region of Sudan , an area where the Sudanese government has been accused of war crimes and mass murders. Human rights groups like Global Witness ...
Venezuela has officially requested the extradition of alleged terrorist and Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles . Carriles, a naturalized Venezuelan and former CIA collaborator, is wanted for allegedly blowing up a Cuban airline in 1976 and later escaping...
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz visited a Rwandan genocide memorial Thursday and apologized on behalf of the international community for its failure to prevent the 1994 mass genocide . Wolfowitz is on...
