Lebanese President Emile Lahoud voiced objections to a draft document governing the special tribunal to be tasked with trying suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri ...
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A Beijing court has denied an appeal hearing for Ching Cheong , who was convicted in August on charges of spying for Taiwan. Ching, the chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times , was sentenced...
China's legislature Saturday finished the unprecedented sixth reading of a landmark private property bill intended to protect state, collective and private property . If the National People's Congress passes the legislation next March as...
Indonesia will release two prisoners convicted of the 2002 bombings that killed over 200 people at a Bali nightclub , prison officials said Monday. The convicts will be freed Tuesday to mark the Muslim holiday...
Conservative radio commentator Armstrong Williams has agreed to pay the US Department of Education $34,000 after a year-long investigation of the commentator's agreement to endorse President Bush's education policies, a Department spokesperson...
Carla Del Ponte , chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , once again on Monday strongly criticized Serbia's lack of progress in the capture and arrest of war crimes fugitive...
US Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III appeared in military court Monday to contest charges of kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi civilian in April. Hutchins was the leader of an eight-man squad in Hamdania that allegedly took...
Thailand Defense Minister Boonrawd Somtas said Sunday that former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra may "come home," but should wait until martial law is revoked. Martial law has been in place since the mid-September bloodless coup ...
Mexico may ask the UN to intervene in a brewing border fence dispute with the United States, Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said Monday. Legal experts are investigating the legality of...
US Army Sgt. Ricky Clousing , an Iraq war veteran, will face a court-martial this week for charges of desertion after leaving his barracks on his return from Iraq last year. Clousings attorney said that he has agreed...
