A former Guantanamo Bay detainee was convicted by a Tunisian court Wednesday on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization. Abdullah al-Hajji Ben Amor was sentenced to seven years in prison. He was convicted in absentia on the same charges in Tunisia in 1995, five years after he had left the country, according to Human [...]

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday agreed to a $30 million settlement of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act charges against Chevron in connection with the oil company's alleged involvement in a scheme to exchange illegal payments to Iraqi officials under the now-defunct UN Oil-for-Food program . The settlement requires Chevron to disgorge $25 [...]

The Pakistani government will provide pension and other benefits to Supreme Court and High Court judges dismissed from their positions in the wake of the November 3 declaration of emergency rule, independent station Geo-TV reported on its website Wednesday. Officials have decided that the judges who refused to take an oath under the new Provisional [...]

The government of Iran has charged a former key nuclear negotiator with espionage, the state news agency IRNA reported Wednesday. Hossein Mousavian was arrested in May on suspicions that he passed classified information to the British embassy and other foreigners. Mousavian is closely allied with former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , a political opponent [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that the US Navy's use of high-powered sonar should be limited during training exercises in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. The Court vacated its earlier stay on a temporary injunction preventing the Navy's use of the high-powered sonar technology effective [...]

The Supreme Court of Chile affirmed seven convictions and overturned one on Tuesday in cases involving murders committed by state agents during the 1973-90 regime of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet . Former Air Force General Freddy Ruiz Bunger and six former members of the Joint Command, a special police force, received suspended sentences of [...]

US State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard Wednesday testified before the US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and denied allegations that he politicized the Inspector General's Office by obstructing inquiries that could harm the Bush administration. The allegations brought against Krongard include claims that he blocked investigations of fraud and mismanaged spending in Iraq [...]

The Georgian Republic will end its national state of emergency this Friday, Georgian Speaker of Parliament Nino Burdzhanadze said Wednesday. Burdzhanadze made the announcement on behalf of the government in a televised statement after the US called on Georgia to end emergency rule. After several days of protests, Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli announced a [...]

The US House of Representatives passed legislation by voice vote Tuesday that would ban federal prosecutors from threatening to prosecute corporations for refusing to turn over information protected by attorney-client privilege . The Attorney-Client Privilege Act of 2007 would bar prosecutors from demanding that a corporation waive its attorney-client privilege and from considering a corporation's [...]

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told AP Wednesday that he expects to give up his position as army chief by the end of the month. Opposition groups had challenged Musharraf's eligibility to run for re-election as president while he still served as head of the army. The Supreme Court of Pakistan was on the brink of [...]