Conrad Black , the media tycoon and former chairman of Hollinger International recently indicted on criminal fraud charges failed to appear for his arraignment in a Chicago courtroom Tuesday. The arraignment was delayed until November 30 after Black's lawyers requested additional time from prosecutors Monday evening. Last week, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said that he [...]

Austrian prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against British historian David Irving , who was arrested last week for violating an Austrian law making it illegal to deny the Holocaust. Prosecutor Otto Schneider said, "A charge was filed in relation to two speeches in 1989 in which he denied the existence of gas chambers." Irving has previously [...]

Chile's high court voted 5-0 Monday to uphold a lower court decision detaining former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori as he fights extradition to Peru. He will remain in custody until Peru requests his extradition. A first attempt by a Peruvian prosecutor to request extradition was rejected by Peru's Supreme Court because the request did not [...]

AP is reporting that "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla has been indicted on criminal charges. Padilla has been in US custody for over three years on allegations that he was involved in an al Qaeda plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the US and his indefinite detention without charge has been the subject [...]

Former Ecuador President Lucio Gutierrez filed a criminal complaint with the country's attorney general Monday seeking sedition and conspiracy charges against his successor, former Vice President Alfredo Palacio , for allegedly overthrowing the government. Gutierrez was arrested in October when he returned to Ecuador after renouncing political asylum in Colombia. Gutierrez became the third Ecuadorian [...]

A federal lawsuit was filed against McLennan County, Texas Monday by three war protestors claiming that new county ordinances prohibiting roadside parking and camping interferes with their ability to gather outside President Bush's Crawford ranch. Plaintiffs Richard Underhill, Benjamin Hart Viges, and Sherry Glover, who are represented by the Texas Civil Rights Project , are [...]

French Ambassador to the US Jean-David Levitte said Monday that France was "back to normal" following three weeks of rioting and he denied that religion played a role in the violence, which was prevalent in largely Muslim communities. Levitte said the issue was equality and that the mostly teenage rebellion was because of social and [...]

A government panel agreed Monday that Japan's succession law should be changed to allow the first-born child, irrespective of gender, the right to ascend to the throne, which would for the first time allow female members of the royal family to become monarchs. The advisory panel has been meeting since January to study the succession [...]

French Judge Brigitte Raynaud is in Rwanda investigating accusations that Paris helped a former Hutu government massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 genocide , French Ambassador Dominique Decherf said Tuesday. Last year, Rwanda's Tutsi President Paul Kagame first accused France of training and arming Hutu militias who were behind the 100-day slaughter that killed 800,000. [...]

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Kenya's anti-draft constitution Orange Movement has gained an insurmountable lead according to the Electoral Commission of Kenya following Monday's national referendum on the proposed draft Constitution . The Electoral Commission released official results that put the Orange Movement up by more than one million votes, nearly 16 percent of those voting. [...]