Raed Juhi, a senior judge on the Iraqi Special Tribunal , said Wednesday that the Tribunal's investigations of the case against Saddam Hussein are "more than 80 percent complete". He said the court's investigating judges are not the ones to set a trial date, but according to a source a five-judge panel will set a [...]

Argentine newspaper La Nacion reported Wednesday that Argentina has taken formal responsibility for its failure to discover who was behind the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 86 people and that Argentine President Nestor Kirchner has admitted that previous administrations tried to downplay the failures in the investigation. Kirchner added [...]

Texas District Judge Robert Perkins Tuesday reaffirmed an indictment for violations of a state law regarding corporate campaign contributions against an ally of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX). John Colyandro, executive director of Texans for a Republican Majority , was indicted last September on charges of illegally collecting campaign money. The court rejected defense [...]

Italian police executed 200 search warrants across the country Wednesday, searching for illegal arms and explosives, the public security department for the Italian Interior Ministry announced. The raids did not lead to any immediate arrests but police are investigating a range of crimes from falsifying documents to terrorism, primarily in Milan, Rome, Turin and Naples. [...]

The pro-hunting Countryside Alliance Wednesday challenged Britain's recent ban on fox hunting with dogs in the House of Lords Wednesday by questioning the Parliament Act , the law that allowed the lower house of parliament, the House of Commons, to pass the legislation over the objection of the upper chamber. "The challenge to the Parliament [...]

Police in the Netherlands announced Wednesday the arrest of a 17-year-old boy as part of an investigation into the Hofstad terrorist group that killed filmmaker Theo van Gogh . Police found a homemade bomb in the boy's room. Although he was investigated for publishing extremist Muslim texts on the Internet, they doubt he is a [...]

Parliamentary members of Zimbabwe's ruling African National Union-Patriotic Front party Tuesday defeated an opposition proposal that would have ended the government's controversial home demolition program . "Operation Restore Order" has resulted in 30,000 arrests of illegal squatters and merchants, and left anywhere from 300,000 to 1 million people homeless. The government has defended the plan [...]

A New York prosecutor Tuesday dropped all charges against New Paltz Mayor Jason West, who could have faced jail time for marrying gay couples on the steps of the village hall. In May 2005, 24 misdemeanor counts were filed against West for violating the state's domestic relations law by marrying couples without licenses, making him [...]

Human rights groups including the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network and Human Rights Watch have urged UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to support a UN panel's recommendation for an international tribunal to investigate atrocities committed after East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999. Indonesia opposes such a tribunal , and activist groups [...]

Speaking in the British House of Commons Wednesday one day after police revealed that the perpetrators of the London bombings were British nationals, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said his government would tighten border controls to keep out individuals preaching religious hatred and would take steps to deport from the United Kingdom those already doing [...]