New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Thursday announced a lawsuit against Gratis Internet that alleges the company illegally sold the personal information – including e-mail addresses – of between one and seven million survey participants who were promised confidentiality. Gratis induced consumers to provide the information by offering free DVDs, iPods, and video games [...]

The Belarus Central Election Commission has dismissed a complaint contesting the results of Sunday's election, which provided a landslide victory for Alexander Lukashenko , who garnered over 82 percent of the vote. The complaint, filed by presidential candidate Alexander Kozulin, who received less than 3 percent of the vote, alleged rigged results and other monitoring [...]

Kizza Besigye , the recently defeated presidential candidate in Uganda , has asked the Ugandan Supreme Court to order a new presidential election, saying results from the February 23 election were unreliable due to fraud, violence and bribery. Besigye blamed the Ugandan Electoral Commission for fraudulent vote tallies in his petition to the court Wednesday, [...]

The Philippines Army said Thursday that it would recommend court-martial for 20 soldiers in connection with last month's failed coup attempt against Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , including Brigadier General Danilo Lim. The army is continuing to investigate the actions of more than 100 other soldiers who may have been part of the plan. The [...]

Indonesia has threatened legal action against US mining company Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold if it does not improve environmental conditions near its gold mine in Papua. For the past few days, protestors have called for the government to take action against the mine in order to control the production of waste ore called tailings that [...]

An Ethiopian court dropped charges Wednesday against 18 people, including five American journalists, as the treason trial for 129 protestors resumed. The charges against the 18 included treason, attempted genocide, and other crimes in connection with allegations that they attempted to overthrow the government. The five journalists work for the US government-run Voice of America [...]

The state of Nevada filed a lawsuit against the federal government Wednesday, seeking documents related to the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump , including documents which allegedly contain information that the proposed site cannot meet radiation safety standards mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) . The Nevada Attorney General is seeking access to [...]

Leading Thursday's international brief, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland has called on Sudan to accept the presence of a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur as essential to protecting Sudan's citizens. Egeland said that the AU, while effective in the short-term, was incapable of meeting the long-term demands that Darfur calls for and that [...]

Afghanistan Supreme Court Judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada said Thursday that Afghan courts will not bow to outside pressure in the case of Abdul Rahman , who has been jailed for converting to Christianity and who could face the death penalty under Islamic sharia law if convicted of apostasy. Mawlavizada said that the "judiciary will act independently [...]

The UK Terrorism Bill is set to become law after the House of Lords Wednesday backed down on its objection to a controversial provision criminalizing the "glorification" of terrorism. The legislation, introduced in the wake of the July 7 London bombings , had gone back and forth between the two chambers six times, with the [...]