Michael Rigas, the former executive vice president of Adelphia Communications Corp. and son of founder John Rigas pleaded guilty in Manhattan Wednesday to falsifying a financial record. His plea negates the need for retrial on other charges...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the Nepal Supreme Court issued a ruling Wednesday suspending the new Code of Conduct law that governs the behavior of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Nepal. Justice Parmananda Jha issued the stay in light...

Canada's federal government announced Wednesday that it is offering more than $2 billion in compensation to more than 80,000 surviving former First Nations students who may have suffered abuse in native residential schools where they were displaced from their...

The Russian Duma , the lower house of parliament, has approved a bill that would greatly increase state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by requiring them to register with a state commission. The law, passed Wednesday by 370...

The National Assembly , the lower house of the French parliament, began debate Wednesday on a new anti-terror law said to have been partly prompted by the July 7 London bombings and the apparent...

Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli has cast doubt on the motivations behind a Milan prosecutor's request for the extradition of 22 CIA agents accused of participating in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003 ....

Wire services are reporting that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has been indicted on tax evasion and corruption charges, and has been put under house arrest pending trial.9:59 AM ET - The charges stem from an...

The European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) reported Wednesday that Roma minorities, also known as Gypsies, are the ethnic group most susceptible to racism in the European Union . As the EU expands...

The US Department of Justice Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Missouri, alleging that contrary to federal law it had failed to take steps to remove the names of deceased and otherwise ineligible voters from its electoral...

Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, November 20, 2005 [directing the transfer of custody of "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla, a US citizen, from the US Defense Department to the US Attorney General for the purpose of pursuing criminal charges against...