China's Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) has ratified the international World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control , created earlier this year as the first international legal means to...
The former chairman of Egypt's largest state-owned newspaper allegedly took millions of dollars in secret payments, according to a report by Cairo's El-Osboa newspaper . Ibrahim Nafie became chairman of the Al-Ahram press group...
The New Mexico Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in a lawsuit filed by 2004 presidential candidates David Cobb and Michael Badnarik . Attorneys for Cobb and Badnarik argued that...
Several civil rights organizations, including the University of Chicago Law School's MacArthur Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois announced Monday that they have asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ...
An immigration judge held a hearing Monday to determine if former anti-Castro CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles should be granted asylum to the US after illegally entering through Mexico earlier this year. Venezuelan officials have...
KPMG agreed to pay $456 million Monday in a settlement that will allow the accounting firm to avoid federal criminal prosecution for selling abusive tax shelters enabling wealthy individuals to evade income tax liabilities during 1996-2002. KPMG...
An Iraqi judge investigating charges against Saddam Hussein met with Kurdish officials Monday to gather information about the 1988 poison gas attack against the northern Iraq village of Halabja. The investigating judge from the...
The Federal Elections Commission has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that the FEC must write tougher rules for the enforcement of campaign financing laws. The FEC filed a petition for a rehearing en...
Prince Talal bin Abdel-Aziz , a half-brother of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has called for political reform in Saudi Arabia, including the introduction of a constitution and a "quasi-legislative council." He told Radio Monte Carlo [media...
Israel's High Court of Justice issued a temporary injunction Sunday prohibiting the destruction of 20 synagogues in the now-evacuated Gaza Strip until further notice. The order was issued in response to requests made by...