The Sudanese government said Sunday that it is ready to formally accept the peace deal mediated by the African Union for the war-torn region of Darfur . Majzoub al-Khalifa,...

Malawi Vice President Cassim Chilumpha has been arrested on treason charges for allegedly plotting to assassinate Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika , Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Henry Phoya said Saturday. Chilumpha was arrested late Friday...

The FBI issued a total of 9,254 National Security Letters (NSLs) in 2005 related to 3,501 US citizens and legal residents, according to a new US Department of Justice report. The NSLs...

Nepalese lawmakers pressing for wide-ranging changes to the country's constitution called Saturday for King Gyanendra to give up control of the army to put out of his reach a key instrument...

Lester Crawford , the embattled former head of the US Food and Drug Administration who stepped down in September 2005 after only three months in office in the midst of a furor over the...

The British lawyer serving as chief prosecutor for the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone , the West African war crimes court that will try recently-captured ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor for war crimes and crimes...

The US Department of Justice says it will ask a federal judge to dismiss a class-action suit launched in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a cyberspace privacy group, against telecommunications giant AT&T...

The US Third Circuit Court of Appeals Friday overturned a Pittsburgh municipality ordinance requiring canvassers to register with police before going door to door. The ACLU filed suit on behalf of a local of the...

A spokesman for the Administrative Office of the US Courts said Friday that creating an inspector general for the federal judiciary to investigate possible ethical violations by federal judges "would be a serious incursion into judicial independence"...

In the latest legal assault on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , conservative business organization the Free Enterprise Fund has asked former US solicitor general and Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr , former US assistant attorney general...