Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff , who faces federal bank fraud charges related to a casino deal, expressed his willingness Tuesday to speak with investigators about the death of Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis. Abramoff is charged with conspiracy and wire fraud in the September 2000 purchase of SunCruz Casinos from Boulis, who was shot to death a [...]

A US Department of Defense analyst and two former officials of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified national defense information. Analyst Lawrence Franklin, who worked on the Pentagon's Iran desk at the time of the allegations, has been [...]

Leading Tuesday's states brief, the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit ruled today that North Dakota may not use federal water pollution laws to challenge the Army Corps of Engineers' management of the Missouri River nor may the state's Attorney General force the Army Corps to stop drawing its Missouri River water releases [...]

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, JP Morgan Chase has settled with Enron for the bank's role in the accounting fraud that lead to Enron's bankruptcy . In a Tuesday press release , JP Morgan said that the bank will pay Enron $350 million in return for Enron not pursuing its claims against JP [...]

Kurdish leaders insisted Tuesday that they do not plan to secede from Iraq even though they want the new Iraqi constitution to provide the group the right to self-determination in order to protect themselves from potential future problems. The issues of self-determination, the role of Islam, federalism and the use of oil and other natural [...]

Indicted former Rwandan government official Michel Bagaragaza surrendered himself to officials from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Tuesday. Bagaragaza has been indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit genocide, genocide and complicity in genocide and is alleged to have ordered his own subordinates and others to kill hundreds of Tutsi civilian refugees seeking [...]

The Russian government approved a resolution Tuesday that authorized its formal withdrawal from the Russian-Estonian border agreements, the next-to-last phase that Russia must complete in order to satisfy international legal standards on the withdrawal from a treaty. The Russian-Estonian border treaties, agreed to in May 2005 , became a source of contention between the two [...]

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun said Tuesday that he intends to push for the elimination of a statute of limitations for future human rights violations in South Korea, but said that he isn't seeking to introduce retroactive punishment for acts already outside the statute of limitations, which bars prosecution of government officials after a certain [...]

A Lusaka magistrate court has held that the Zambian Director of Public Prosecutions has sufficient evidence to proceed with a trial against Patriotic Front President Michael Sata on espionage charges. Sata's trial will be held before the Zambian High Court, and will focus on his alleged incitement of explosions caused by workers at the Konkola [...]

Angolan Supreme Court Justice Caetano de Sousa has been elected by the Angolan Parliament to serve as the head of the National Electoral Commission (CNE) tasked with supervising preparations for elections scheduled for the first half of 2006. Angola has been in a constant state of civil war for the past 30 years and both [...]