Australian Prime Minister John Howard asked parliament Monday to establish an independent inquiry into whether any Australian companies paid bribes to Iraqi officials involved in the now defunct UN oil-for-food program . Last...
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Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction , said that corruption continues to cost Iraq billions of dollars each year and has called for an American-Iraqi summit in the fight against corruption in Iraq, in a report...
The trial of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali , an American citizen accused of plotting to kill President Bush, begins Monday in federal court in Virginia. Abu Ali has pleaded not guilty to a nine-count indictment...
Thousands of people gathered Sunday under the dome of the Capitol Rotunda to view the closed casket of civil rights activist Rosa Parks , who died of natural causes at the age of 92 last week ....
Wire services are reporting that President Bush will nominate Judge Samuel Alito of the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals to fill the US Supreme Court seat left vacant...
Two US soldiers have been charged with assault, conspiracy to maltreat, and dereliction of duty for allegedly punching two detainees in the chest, shoulders and stomach at a base detention site in southern Afghanistan in...
The Australian Government and Prime Minister John Howard committed Sunday to passing new anti-terror laws before Christmas after weekend meetings to discuss a revised draft of a proposed anti-terror bill. Howard gave premiers until Monday...
In a bid to facilitate the transition of Iraq detention operations to Iraqi security forces, the US military has opened a new prison near the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah in northern Iraq. Named Fort Suse, the facility...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague is this week expected to make a final ruling on a bid by accused former Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj to return to...
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court has received the first 30 appeals from Jewish families evacuated from Gaza under the Israeli disengagement plan who are complaining about low compensation amounts and delays in payments. The Legal Forum...
