The court-martial of the Navy lawyer accused of passing then-undisclosed names of Guantanamo detainees to a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) began Monday. In its opening statement, the prosecution argued that Lt....
The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida heard opening statements Monday in the federal trial of US citizen and alleged al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla . The government told jurors that...
The German state court in Darmstadt convicted two former Siemens AG officials on Monday of bribing and assisting in the bribery of two managers at Enel , Italy's largest utilities company. Andreas Kley, a former finance...
The Connecticut Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in the case of eight gay couples who are unhappy with Connecticut's civil unions law and are seeking full marriage rights. Gay & Lesbian Advocates and...
A Syrian court sentenced writer and activist Michel Kilo Monday to a prison term of three years for "speaking false news, weakening national feeling and inciting sectarian sentiments." Kilo was arrested in May 2005 along...
Pojaman Shinawatra, wife of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra , her brother Banpot Damapong, and her personal secretary Kanchanapa Honghern, pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of tax evasion and perjury ...
Approximately 1.5 million people descended upon Izmir, Turkey Sunday to demonstrate against the Islamist-rooted government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan , expressing their commitment to the concept of a secular republic. The...
Four of the fired US Attorneys were dismissed after Republican officials complained they were lax in prosecuting alleged voter fraud in battleground states before the November 2006 elections, the Washington Post reported Monday. Documents and interviews...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan Monday adjourned the hearing of petitions filed by suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry after Justice Falak Sher, one of the fourteen justices on the...
The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the arrest of prominent Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari Sunday, saying that Esfandiari's arrest was "based on law" but did not elaborate on the reason for the arrest....