Two Rwandan businessmen were found guilty by a Brussels court Tuesday on 81 charges of murder and war crimes related to the country's 1994 genocide during which 800,000 people were killed. Half-brothers Samuel Ndashyikirwa and Etienne Nzabonimana, who have repeatedly denied any involvement in the genocide, were accused of giving weapons, vehicles and beer to [...]

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news,the UK's Financial Services Authority has fined Citigroup $25 million for flooding the market with bonds. Though the transaction was not illegal, it was against standard practice for European bond trading. In a press release, the FSA said that the transaction caused a sharp drop in bond prices. Reuters [...]

The White House is expected to approve 70 changes proposed by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction after a three-month investigation by the National Security Council which will be made public Wednesday. The recommendations were outlined in a report issued by the commission in March which [...]

Leading Tuesday's states brief, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled today that the state's Public Service Commission acted properly in approving a coal-fired power plant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. S.C Johnson & Son and the environmental group Clean Wisconsin challenged the plant saying that the Commission did not give enough scrutiny to the project and failed [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said Tuesday that the UN has learned of serious allegations that the US is secretly detaining prisoners aboard military vessels, perhaps in the Indian Ocean in the vicinity of the US island base at Diego Garcia . Nowak acknowledged that the allegations were only rumors but added that [...]

Canadian Minister of State Joe Comuzzi resigned from the government Liberal cabinet Tuesday hours before a scheduled parliamentary vote on a controversial same-sex marriage bill . Comuzzi, Minister of State for Northern Ontario, informed Prime Minister Paul Martin early Tuesday that he could not vote in opposition to his constituents, who he claims overwhelmingly oppose [...]

The US Department of Justice has formally asked a federal judge to impose $14 billion in penalties on cigarette companies in a massive racketeering trial. The request made late Monday elaborates on smoking cessation proposals made earlier this month during the trial's closing arguments. The proposed program of $14 billion, slightly more than the $10 [...]

Egyptian opposition presidential candidate Ayman Nour pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of forgery as hundreds outside the courthouse protested his trial as a attempt to eliminate any rivals to current President Hosni Mubarak . The case, in which Nour is accused of forging signatures to get his opposition al-Ghad party registered, has created tension [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada Tuesday ruled unanimously that Rwandan Leon Mugesera , accused of inciting genocide, must be deported from Canada. In 1992 Mugesera gave a speech in Rwanda encouraging Hutus to kill Tutsis, a speech the Supreme Court of Canada concluded could be reasonably viewed as a crime against humanity. Lawyers for Mugesera [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday upheld civil contempt of court findings against four reporters unwilling to reveal their sources for articles about Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee . The court did overturn a lower court's contempt ruling for a fifth journalist, Jeff [...]