The US government has agreed to a $300,000 settlement of claims by an Egyptian that he was abused while being detained by US authorities for months following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The settlement reached with Ehab Elmaghraby is the first reached by the federal government over claims arising from the rounding up of hundreds [...]

Leading Tuesday's international brief, the Supreme Court of India has issued a ruling that bans all media entities from publishing or revealing any transcripts or recordings they may have of conversations that were taped illegally. The ruling comes as Amar Singh, a high political party official in India, has been fighting the release by radio [...]

The main opposition party in Uganda , Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) , said Tuesday that it plans to contest the country's election results in court. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won last Tuesday's election with 59 percent of the votes amidst allegations of fraud and intimidation of voters. Protestors in support of losing FDC presidential [...]

The Supreme Court of Ohio Monday ruled that hundreds of convicted defendants will need to be resentenced after judges handed down harsher sentences because they were considering evidence not admitted at trial. The ruling found that six parts of the 1996 Ohio sentencing law are unconstitutional because they required judges to review evidence during the [...]

The New York Times sued the US Department of Defense Monday over the government's failure to release requested documents regarding the National Security Agency (NSA) domestic surveillance program . The Times broke the story last December, reporting that the government has secretly eavesdropped on domestic phone conversations without court approval , and requested internal e-mails, [...]

A defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein said Monday that the Iraqi members of the defense team will attend the next session of the trial set to resume on Tuesday. Earlier this month Hussein, four co-defendants and defense lawyers boycotted trial proceedings before the Iraqi High Criminal Court – formerly the Iraqi Special [...]

The United Nations Security Council deadlocked Monday over what sanctions to impose in connection with the ongoing conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. The US, Britain, Denmark and France would like to move ahead with action against individuals they have identified as blocking the regional peace process but China, Russia and Qatar have asked for more [...]

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said Monday that the European Union will suspend membership negotiations with Serbia and Montenegro if it did not fully cooperate in apprehending war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic , echoing a formal statement made at the end of an EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels. Mladic faces charges brought by the [...]

The last Iraqi daytime curfew was lifted in Baghdad Monday after five days of sectarian bloodshed, but tensions in the country still threaten to bring civil war. Iraqi officials announced an end to the curfew to let people go back to work, but an overnight curfew remains in force throughout the country. Wide-ranging curfews were [...]

A last-minute effort by Miami-based Eller & Co. to block expected UK High Court approval of the $6.8 billion sale of US port operating rights by British company P&O to United Arab Emirates firm DP World was met with derision Monday when P&O lawyers dismissed their legal arguments against the deal as "woefully thin". The [...]