Leading Monday's corporations and securities law news, Marsh & McLennan Cos. , the world's biggest insurance broker, has agreed to pay $850 million to settle charges that the company conspired with insurers to rig bids. Under the agreement with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer , Marsh will fully disclose all forms of compensation to [...]

Thousands of illegal immigrants fled Malaysia Monday as the Malaysian government prepared to launch a campaign to round up and deport illegal foreign workers. January 31 is the last day of a three-month amnesty granted to illegals to leave the country without punishment. On Tuesday, the government plans to launch a task force of 500,000 [...]

In Monday's international brief, the United Kingdom's Special Immigration Appeal Commission has granted bail to three terror suspects individuals being held without charge or trial in London's Belmarsh Prison . The only individual to be named, Abu Rideh, was recently moved to Broadmoor Mental Hospital for treatment for mental health problems. Rideh and the other [...]

Citing "information… that made me question Mr. Ross's competency," the attorney hired by convicted serial rapist and murderer Michael Ross to expedite his execution filed a motion Monday to delay what would be New England's first execution in 45 years. The attorney, T.J. Paulding, said in his motion that psychiatrist Michael Norko, who previously declared [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Monday sentenced former Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar to eight years in prison for his role in the 1991 shelling of Dubrovnik , the historic Croatian city that UNESCO had declared a World Cultural Heritage site. Strugar, who commanded Yugoslav forces during the 1991 siege, was found guilty [...]

US District Judge Joyce Hens Green has ruled that the Guantanamo military tribunals for terror suspects are unconstitutional, and that Guantanamo prisoners have constitutional protections under the law. Judge Green said that the eleven plaintiff before her in a co-ordinated habeas proceedings had valid Fifth Amendment claims and that the proceedings conducted by Combatant Status [...]

Tens of thousands of Israeli settlers gathered in Jerusalem Sunday evening at the start of a scheduled 24-hour protest against a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Arial Sharon to remove all 21 Israeli settlements from Gaza and four smaller settlements from the West Bank this summer. The settlers, organized by the Yesha Settlers Council are [...]

The trial to determine responsibility for the massive 1999 fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel , which runs between Italy and France, opened today in France. The fire, which killed 39 people and burned for more than 2 days, is believed to have been started by a truck carrying flour and margarine. Two hundred plaintiffs [...]

Israeli officials have told the US that Israel will reexamine the cases of Palestinians in East Jerusalem whose land was seized by Israel due to the building of the security fence . The US had expressed concern over the seizure of the land by local officials, in part because of the current attempts by the [...]

Speaking in Nigeria Sunday, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged the UN Security Council to consider sanctions against Sudan for "gross violations of human rights". Annan cited a UN report, due to be released this week, that found that "serious violations of international humanitarian law and gross violations of human rights have taken place." The report [...]