Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev have reportedly been sent to remote prisons in Siberia and the far north of the country to serve eight-year sentences...
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. v. Google Inc., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, October 19, 2005 ....
Colombia's Constitutional Court Wednesday upheld legislation that would change the country's constitution to allow presidents to serve more than one term, a ruling that could allow Colombian President Alvaro Uribe [official website in Spanish; BBC...
Morocco has prevented UN officials from visiting African migrants detained in the country despite repeated requests for access, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported Wednesday. The agency has said it fears that Morocco has forced many...
Iraqi police on Wednesday arrested a nephew of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit on charges that he has served as a leading financier of the country's insurgency, Iraqi security officials reported. Yasir Sabhawi Ibrahim is the son...
The US Senate moved Wednesday to cut federal funding for projects that seize peoples' homes for private development, continuing a backlash to a recent controversial ruling by the US Supreme Court . The amendment...
Spanish High Court Judge Santiago Pedraz on Wednesday issued an international arrest warrant for three US soldiers from the 3rd Infantry, Sgt. Thomas Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt. Col. Philip de Camp, over the death of a Spanish...
A Texas court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) for his indictment on charges of money laundering and criminal conspiracy . The warrant, described...
New York Times reporter Judith Miller and US Attorney Chuck Rosenberg on Wednesday offered differing takes on the need for federal legislation to protect confidentiality of journalists' sources during a Senate Judiciary Committee [official...
Leading Wednesday's environmental law news, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that the US Bureau of Reclamation must come up with a new plan to use water from...