AP is reporting that, as anticipated , Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud charges. The US Department filed a criminal information Tuesday morning...

Swedish prosecutor Christer Van der Kwast will investigate several well-known Swedish companies, including the bus and truck manufacturer Volvo and tool manufacturer Atlas Copco , for allegedly making payments to the Iraqi government in exchange for...

The Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled in State v. McAuliffe , where the court upheld by a 4-1 vote the constitutionality of probation orders allowing police to randomly search the subject of the order. The decision...

Peru formally requested the extradition of former president Alberto Fujimori from Chile Tuesday so that he can face 12 charges including authorizing an illegal death squad, abuse of power and corruption. The...

According to records released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation , 44 convicts out of a total California prison population of 164,000 committed suicide during 2005, an increase from 26 in 2004 and 36 in 2003,...

Turkish state prosecutors charged nine journalists and human rights activists with promoting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Monday. According to the indictment, the defendants used a Reuters reporter's observation of a PKK handover of an...

Indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff has agreed to plead guilty to two of six fraud charges and to assist federal prosecutors with any ongoing investigations in exchange for a more favorable sentence, Abramoff's lawyers said Tuesday. Abramoff...

Ugandan opposition leader and presidential challenger Dr. Kizza Besigye , released on bail by the Ugandan High Court Monday, has declared that President Yoweri Museveni should face charges for treason committed during the 1998-2003...

As expected , the French Government on Tuesday officially declared an end to the state of emergency implemented in November to quell riots that tore through the country late last year....

Issam Ghazzawi, a defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein , said Tuesday that Hussein, on trial for his involvement in the 1982 Dujail massacre , would prefer to die by firing squad rather than...