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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced Monday that Reliant Energy and California, Oregon, Washington and three other utility companies, have reached a financial settlement for legal claims against Reliant concerning its alleged price-gouging and manipulation of energy...

US officials said Thurday that the US would investigate allegations that Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was among the revolutionary students responsible for taking American embassy staff in Tehran hostage in 1979 and holding them for 444 days...

Citing ongoing disagreements over process, the head of the International Crisis Group conflict-monitoring organization called the initial August 15 deadline for the drafting of the permanent Iraqi constitution "unrealistic" in a Monday editorial in the Financial Times...

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview Tuesday with the Financial Times that Britain will attempt to salvage some key components from the nearly-defunct EU Constitution. UK Secretary of State for Foreign and...

Justice Emmanuel Olayinka Ayoola , President of the Special Court of Sierra Leone , the tribunal created by the UN to hear cases of serious crimes committed during the West African country's civil war, warned ...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has flagged and implicitly condemned threats from several high-ranking Sudanese officials warning that international personnel in the country may be at greater risk if the International Criminal Court [official...

A new opinion poll released Monday by the Financial Times shows that almost 70 percent of Britain's finance directors are opposed to the country adopting the new European constitution . Thirty percent of business managers responding...

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) , who have been examining the trading schemes Enron employed on Western power consumers, contend that the energy giant should...

Tensions escalated in the dispute between Venezuela and Colombia Sunday as a celebration of Venezuelan independence quickly turned into a march of supporters of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez , expressing approval for his response to the...

In Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, federal officials are investigating former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay's wife in connection with a $1.3 million Enron stock sale just days before the energy company went under. The couple's lawyer indicated the...