Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has refused to sign a controversial bill that would have severely limited the rights of NGOs to act in Zimbabwe , according to newspaper reports. The Non-Governmental Organisations Bill was passed by the Zimbabwean Parliament last year and was simply awaiting the signature of the president to [...]

The leaders of French, Germany, and Poland banded together Thursday in defense of the EU Constitution just ten days before the French vote on the document. French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerard Schroeder, and Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski have joined forces after a meeting in eastern France, where concern over the French passage of [...]

Three hedge-fund managers must pay $2.4M to settle charges that the companies used illegal stock trading tactics to profit off 22 other companies. Galleon Management LP, Oaktree Capital Management LLC and DB Investment Managers Inc. were alleged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to have violated Rule 105 , an anti-manipulation rule that the [...]

Real IRA member Sean Gerard Hoey faces 61 new charges connected to the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed 29 people and injured over 300. Hoey was already faced murder charges for his involvement in the bombing, the worst single atrocity in all of Northern Ireland's "troubles". The crime had remained largely unsolved due to the [...]

Anti-Castro Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles was been charged by US immigration officials Thursday with illegally entering the country. Carriles, wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for his alleged connection to a 1976 bombing of a Cuban airline bounds for Caracas, could potentially be deported from the US. Venezuela's Vice-President assured the US Wednesday that [...]

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the four lawyers who filed a claim citing widespread fraud in the 2004 presidential election should not be punished. Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro had attempted to file a suit against the lawyers, stating that they filed a "meritless claim" against the state's 2004 voting procedures , which [...]

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Thursday announced their opposition to a provisional release of Kosovo's former prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, pending trial. Albanian Haradinaj, who had pleaded not guilty on 37 counts of war crimes , was a former senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army alleged to have committed [...]

Lawyers Thursday finalized a pool of 12 jurors and 10 alternates for the trial of former University of South Florida computer science professor and Palestinian human right activist Sami Al-Arian on charges that he financed terrorism . The defense had originally asked for a change of venue from Tampa, claiming that local media coverage and [...]

The alleged sole survivor of a group responsible for the Beslan school hostage crisis which last September led to the deaths of 344 people, including at least 172 children, pleaded not guilty Thursday in a Russian court sitting in the southern Russian republic of North Ossetia where the hostage-taking occured. Nur-Pashi Kulayev faces life in [...]

Pfc. Lynndie England will be back in court next week for a second Article 32 hearing in advance of a possible new trial at Fort Hood . Earlier this month a judge threw out her guilty plea in her first trial for her role in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, starting the military charging [...]