The Japanese government Thursday proposed providing relief for asbestos victims in a plan that will have companies involved in asbestos-related activities picking up most of the cost. The bill mandates compensation for workers handling asbestos , their...
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Belgium has issued an international arrest warrant for Hissene Habre , the former leader of Chad , lawyers said Thursday. Habre, rumored to be in exile in Senegal, is wanted for crimes against humanity that were allegedly...
Algerians voted Thursday in a referendum that seeks to bring peace to Algeria after a 13-year-long civil war. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika says the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation...
Bayou Group hedge fund founder Samuel Israel, III and Chief Financial Officer Daniel Marino on Thursday pleaded guilty to fraud charges for their roles in a scandal that has led to the collapse of the fund and...
Lawrence A. Franklin , an analyst for the US Department of Defense, plans to plead guilty to charges that he provided classified information to an Israeli official and a pro-Israeli lobbying group, according to the US...
In the first case of a transfer from a UN tribunal to a Balkan country, Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Stankovic has been moved from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former...
US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has ordered the release of photographs and videotapes of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison , despite government arguments that the images could damage America's image in Iraq and Afghanistan....
The defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein has filed a motion petitioning the Iraqi High Criminal Court, previously called the Iraqi Special Tribunal , to delay the first of Hussein's several expected trials set to begin...
The US Senate has approved the nomination of Judge John Roberts to serve as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States by a vote of 78-22 . Roberts is expected to be sworn...
The United Nations Wednesday defended its decision approving Tunisia to host a UN summit on Internet access in the developing world, despite protests that the country is unfit due to repeated allegations of press and civil society abuses. The...
