The Australian judicial inquiry looking into allegations that leading Australian wheat exporter Australian Wheat Board (AWB) provided over $200 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former regime as part of the now-defunct...
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The UK High Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by three UK bankers to halt their extradition to the US to face fraud charges in connection with the Enron scandal. The British...
British historian David Irving has said he will appeal the three-year sentence he received after pleading guilty Monday to charges of denying the Holocaust . Irving was charged in connection to two...
Minority voters in the United States still face unfair poll tactics and barriers that disenfranchise them, according to a major study released Tuesday by the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act , a project...
The US Supreme Court issued two decisions Tuesday, including a ruling in Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal , 04-1084, in which the Court held that a church congregation...
Liberian and UN officials on Monday inaugurated a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights abuses during the country's war-torn rule from 1979-2003. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf presided...
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday sentenced to death eleven members of Jund Allah, an Islam group linked to al Qaeda , after they were convicted of killing ten people in an attack...
Jacques Bernard, head of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council , has fled the country in fear of his life two weeks after heavily disputed elections returned President Rene Preval to office. Preval opponents threatened Bernard's...
MSNBC is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case concerning the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act .The Bush administration in September appealed to the Supreme...
New York Gov. George Pataki and Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich have threatened to take legal steps to block an Arab company's takeover of operations in several major US ports. The governors cite security concerns associated with the...
