Three former Vietnamese government officials and six others will face organized gambling and bribery charges in court next month, a Hanoi People's Court official said Tuesday. Bui Tien Dung, a former project management head in the Ministry of Transportation , allegedly placed bets totaling $760,000 on European soccer matches and subsequently attempted to cover up [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday denied pressuring then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to give the Department of Justice's reauthorization of the controversial warrantless domestic surveillance program while Ashcroft was hospitalized. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales, who was White House Counsel at the time, said that he and then-White House Chief of [...]

A court in India sentenced three men to death on Tuesday for their involvement in the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people and injured more than 700 in India's financial center. The court found Zakir Hussain, Abdul Akhtar Khan and Firoz Akram Amani Malik guilty of throwing grenades at houses during the bombings. A [...]

Lawyers representing former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega Monday filed motions seeking to avert extradition from the US to France on money laundering charges when he is released from federal prison on September 9 . Noriega's lawyers argue that Noriega should remain classified as a prisoner of war under the Geneva Conventions and therefore should be [...]

An Orleans Parish grand jury Tuesday refused to indict Dr. Anna Pou on charges of killing four patients at the Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina . Pou and two nurses were arrested last year, with prosecutors arguing that they had committed second-degree murder. The charges against the nurses [...]

The United Nations Office of Legal Affairs rejected Taiwan's fifteenth bid for member state status Monday, reiterating the One-China Policy and recognizing the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the legitimate government of China. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Liu Jianchao characterized Taiwan's latest effort to join the UN as a "separatist act of the 'Taiwan [...]

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) told Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday that he should consider appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the US Attorneys firing scandal . In a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing , Specter said that Gonzales may have to appoint the investigator because the Bush administration has made statements that would [...]

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina was formally charged Tuesday with extortion for alleged kickbacks she received during her tenure in office. According to the charges, the former PM and two relatives received thousands of dollars from deals, including one awarding a contract to an electric company. Hasina was arrested last week, and has at [...]

The Chinese government compensated Zhang Zhijian, who exposed the corruption of former drug safety commissioner Zheng Xiaoyu, in the amount of 24,000 yuan ($3,175 USD) after he spent 10 months in jail for posting an Internet story on the corruption, AP reported Tuesday. Zhang was originally sentenced to six years imprisonment in March for defaming [...]

Two federal district judges separately ordered Monday the formation of special three-judge panel to supervise and reduce California's prison population after finding that California's prison overcrowding is preventing the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) from adequately providing mental health care. Judge Thelton E. Henderson of the Northern District of California ordered the suspension [...]