Russian authorities said Wednesday that they will pursue a bribery case against Yulia Tymoshenko , new Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko's pick for prime minister. Tymoshenko faces allegations that she tried to inflate the price of supply contracts with the Russian military when she headed Ukraine's energy grid. A Russian court has already issued an order [...]

UN Children's Fund officials have confirmed 40 cases of children being abducted or recruited as soldiers by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebel group since December's tsunami disaster . According to UNICEF spokesman Martin Dawes, "We have had 40 verified cases by UNICEF of child recruitment of the LTTE since the tsunami. When we say verified, [...]

BBC News is reporting that British police have released all four British detainees recently freed from Guantanamo Bay without charge. The four men were released from Guantanamo Bay to British officials on Tuesday and London Metropolitan Police Commissioner said yesterday that no prosecutions will proceed against the former detainees based material gathered by UK MI5 [...]

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has topped a roster of potential nominees to replace Chief Justice William Rehnquist should he retire, according to the results of a Zogby poll released Wednesday. O'Connor garnered support from 18% of those polled, while more conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia pulled in 13 and 8 percent [...]

US House Committee on the Judiciary chairman James Sensenbrenner, Jr. introduced legislation Wednesday that contains provisions restricting terrorist travel that were dropped from the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 , which was enacted in December . According to Sensenbrenner, the proposed Real ID Act "seeks to prevent another 9/11-type attack by disrupting [...]

The Japanese Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the government can block foreigners from being promoted in public service jobs without violating the country's constitution . South Korean citizen Chong Hyang-gyun sued the Japanese government for the right to taken an exam for a promotion to a managerial position. The Tokyo High Court had ruled that [...]

Steven Hopper, lawyer for soon-to-be-released Australian Gitmo detainee Mamdouh Habib , has said that Habib has been subject to atrocities fit for a "vulgar concentration camp" while detained at Guantanamo Bay. Hopper said that interrogators told Habib they had killed his family and that prostitutes were used as part of the interrogations. Habib allegedly told [...]

In Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, the agreement by Lenovo , China's largest computer supplier, to takeover IBM's PC division for $1.75 billion is in jeopardy of falling apart as congressional Republicans warned that the sale could threaten US security interests. Three Republican committee chairmen led by Duncan Hunter , chairman of the House [...]

Israeli security officials said Wednesday that Israel would suspend its targeted killings of Palestinian militants as part of its preparations for a cease-fire and a resumption of peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. Israel will not act on its current target list of militants, but security officials say that if Palestinians resume hostile activity, those [...]

British Foreign Minister Jack Straw Wednesday unveiled the question voters will be asked in an upcoming referendum on the EU Constitution : Should the United Kingdom approve the treaty establishing a Constitution for the European Union?" Presenting the referendum text to Parliament, Straw said: The choice before the British people, when the referendum comes, will [...]