The US Supreme Court Tuesday overturned the conviction of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm for destroying documents related to the Enron collapse, citing faulty jury instructions. According to the Court, the instructions failed to convey properly the elements of...
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US military officials have acknowledged that the arrest Monday of Sunni leader Mohsen Abdel Hamid , head of the Iraqi Islamic Party , was a mistake, and that US forces had confused Hamid with someone else. According...
The Illinois House and Senate sent a bill to Governor Rod Blagojevich early Tuesday seeking to lower doctors' medical malpractice insurance rates by capping medical malpractice damage awards. SB 475 ...
China Tuesday publicly accused Ching Cheong, chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times newspaper , of spying for "foreign agencies". According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry , "Ching admitted that in recent years he engaged...
French President Jacques Chirac has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin just two days after French voters turned down the proposed European constituton in a referendum that...
The BBC is reporting that on the twelfth day of verdict-reading, a Moscow court has sentenced Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky , former CEO of Russian oil company Yukos, to nine...
Despite France's rejection of the EU constitution in Sunday's national referendum , EU leaders are calling on the 15 European nations that have not yet made a decision on the Constitution to continue with whatever decision-making process was...
Former Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and former Interior Minister Prakashman Singh said Monday they would bring the Royal Commission for Corruption Control before the Nepalese Supreme Court for pursuing an investigation of the...
The Associated Press reported Monday that a new batch of documents received by the press agency under a Freedom of Information Act suit describe multiple allegations of abuse of Guantanamo prisoners by US personnel and inaction by...
The State Crimes Prosecutor for Sudan has ordered the arrest of Paul Foreman, the head of the Dutch wing of Medecins San Frontieres who published a report in March entitled The Crushing Burden of Rape:...
