The European Commission (EC) Tuesday carried out an unannounced inspection at the Munich office of semiconductor manufacturing giant Intel , as part of an investigation into Intel's possible anticompetitive practices directed at rival chip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) . The European Union last year accused Intel of violating European antitrust law by providing "substantial [...]

The widow and son of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic could be tried in absentia on charges that the two organized a cigarette smuggling ring in Serbia during the 1990s, Serbian organized crime prosecutor Miljko Radisavljevic said Tuesday. Mirjana Markovic and her son Marko Milosevic currently reside in Russia and have been granted refugee status [...]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday submitted to the 2008 Conference on Disarmament (CD) a draft treaty, jointly proposed with China, that would regulate the use of weapons in space. According to a press release from the conference: Sergey Lavrov, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, today officially submitted a joint [...]

Danish police on Tuesday arrested several people suspected in a plot to murder Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, one of the 12 cartoonists who published cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in 2005 that sparked widespread protests across the Islamic world. According to Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which first published the cartoons in September 2005, the Danish [...]

An Indonesian court ruled Tuesday that the children of former Indonesian President Haji Mohammed Suharto will have to defend Suharto's estate against a civil corruption case. A prosecutor said that all of Suharto's six children will be summoned to court next week, and one will be appointed to represent Suharto in further proceedings. Suharto, who [...]

A federal judge on Monday issued an order permitting the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to conduct "very limited" discovery in its case against the White House Office of Administration (OA) , the government office that provides administrative services to the Executive Office of the President. CREW filed a [...]

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone and a signatory of the recent Paris Declaration on child soldiers, says that not only is it morally and legally wrong to train children to become terrorists, but that those who have been [...]

Amnesty International on Monday sharply criticized the Cambodian government for forcibly evicting impoverished citizens from their homes to make way for tourism development and infrastructure projects. In a report entitled "Rights Razed – Forced Evictions in Cambodia," Amnesty said that since 2003 nearly 30,000 Cambodians in the capital city of Phnom Penh have been forcibly [...]

A nine-member judicial committee of the UK House of Lords heard testimony Monday in the case of two mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq who are seeking to force the British government to hold a public inquiry into the UK's decision to go to war in Iraq . Beverley Clarke and Rose Gentle argue that [...]

A former Chinese-American engineer at Boeing was arrested Monday for allegedly stealing corporate trade secrets related to the Space Shuttle and other aerospace programs and turning them over to China . Dongfan "Greg" Chung was indicted last Wednesday on charges of economic espionage, conspiracy to commit economic espionage, obstruction of justice, making false statements to [...]