Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Monday that he will provide a statement to the judicial inquiry into Australia's involvement in the oil-for-food scandal , offering to appear before...
Canadian Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that he intends to fulfill a campaign promise and hold a free vote in the Canadian Parliament about whether to revive debate on a federal law permitting same-sex...
The UN human rights chief in Haiti has accused the interim government of imprisoning 4,000 people "preventively" for months or years without facing charges or trials. According to Thierry Fagart, the human rights field officer in...
Former immigration official Michael Maxwell testified about alleged widespread corruption and security vulnerabilities within the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) before the US House Committee on International Relations on Thursday. Maxwell, who resigned in February as...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he's willing to reopen Canada's perenniel constitutional debate. In an interview with CBC radio Sunday ahead of Monday's opening of the 39th Parliament in Ottawa, Harper...
The defense case for former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma opened on Monday with testimony from Zuma about his role in the African National Congress (ANC) . Zuma's motion to dismiss the rape charges [JURIST...
Defense lawyers begin their case this week in the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling . The prosecution's case ended last week with US District Judge Sim Lake...
French union leaders and student groups hinted Monday that they might be willing to re-enter negotiations with the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin a day after the law establishing the so-called First Employment Contract (CPE) [text, JURIST...
Microsoft on Monday appealed a ruling from the South Korean Fair Trade Commission that the company breached antitrust laws by bundling its Windows operating system with Microsoft programs. In the decision ...
Zimbabwe government on Monday announced new anti-terrorism laws that would allow the government to outlaw any group it declares to be a "foreign or international terrorist organization." The proposed Suppression of Foreign and International Terrorism Bill...