Prominent humanitarian aid groups are meeting Friday with International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, currently investigating war crimes in Darfur . The unusual meeting was called by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...

The US Department of Defense has awarded Kellogg Brown and Root Services , the engineering and construction arm of Halliburton , the contract to build a planned $30 million permanent detention facility...

Taiwan's Supreme Court Friday rejected an opposition appeal to overturn the result of a disputed 2004 presidential election won by Chen Shui-Bian in a close race. In the March election Chen defeated Nationalist Party candidate Lien Chen...

Smelt, et al. v. County of Orange, et al., United States District Court for the Central District of California, Judge Gary Taylor, June 16, 2005 [ruling that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act passed by Congress does not violate the...

Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker , whose country currently holds the EU Presidency , said Thursday that EU leaders have decided to extend the ratification deadline for the proposed European constitution until at least 2007....

Leading Thursday's securities and corporations law news, "Big Four" accounting firm KPMG has apologized for creating illegal tax shelters. The firm vowed to clean up its practices and culture. The apology is part of an effort by...

A father and son were indicted by a federal grand jury in California Thursday for allegedly lying to the FBI about the son attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan with connections to al-Qaida....

Leading Thursday's states brief, the Supreme Court of Georgia has warned criminal trial judges to be careful in the way they instruct juries about weighing the value of eyewitness identification. In a decision today, the Court said...

Chechen rebel leader Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev ordered the murder of American journalist Paul Klebnikov according to a report released Thursday by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office. Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition of Forbes, was shot to death...

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that police at roadside DUI checkpoints do not have to inform suspects of their right to legal counsel before asking them whether or not they had been drinking or...