The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Friday that it was fining the American Red Cross $4.2 million for "failure to comply with requirements under Federal laws and FDA regulations relating to...
UN legal counsel Nicholas Michel said Friday at the end of a two-day visit to Lebanon that a special tribunal to try individuals connected with the February 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri...
Conrad Black , the Canadian-born former chairman of media company Hollinger International , pleaded not guilty in Chicago Friday to the latest tax evasion charges he faces stemming from his initial November...
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet can now face human rights charges stemming from the torture of thousands of citizens at Villa Grimaldi prison , an infamous political detention center run by Pinochets secret...
The US military discovered several "torture chambers" northeast of Baghdad in May and June, Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Turner II , the senior commander of US and Iraqi forces in northern Iraq, said Friday. Turner told Pentagon reporters...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Thursday that its Division of Corporation Finance will begin drafting an amendment to an SEC Rule under the Securities Exchange Act of...
Leading Wednesday's international brief, Amnesty International has alleged that efforts by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to provide housing for the hundreds of thousands of residents he forcefully evicted in 2005 have fallen well short of international human...
President Bush's announcement that 14 terrorism suspects have been transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantanamo Bay is "significant" but not sufficient, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said through a spokesman...
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has called on all European Union (EU) member states to collaborate in stemming the tide of illegal immigrants. On Thursday, Barroso wrote a letter to the heads...
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 would allow CIA agents and others to use interrogation techniques not condoned by the US Department of Defense and would restrict federal courts' ability to...