The Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus, resumed on Thursday morning in Tripoli before being adjourned for procedural reasons until June 13. Prosecutors objected to...
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Less than a year before Germany takes over the European Union presidency in January 2007, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said again Thursday that she plans to revive the European constitution ,...
UK Home Secretary John Reid said Thursday that the government will appeal a Wednesday High Court decision to grant asylum to nine Afghans convicted of hijacking a plane to the UK in 2002, allowing them to...
A committee of the American Bar Association has voted unanimously that judicial nominee Michael B. Wallace is "not qualified" to sit on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ....
The US Department of Justice has ended the internal investigation into the role its lawyers played in the NSA's domestic surveillance program approved by President Bush. The investigation had been headed by...
Former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling face an uphill battle after Judge Simeon T. Lake III agreed with prosecutors in the Enron trial Wednesday that jurors should be allowed to find...
The Constitutional Court of Colombia has handed down a decision legalizing exceptions to the country's abortion ban in cases of rape, incest and if the life of the mother...
An Indonesian government official said Thursday that corruption charges against former dictator General Suharto are expected to be dropped despite criticism from human rights groups, including the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation , which has been outspoken...
The National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting phone records from major telephone companies AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth to study the calling patterns of millions of Americans in an effort to detect terrorist activity, according...
A Spanish High Court judge was forced to order the release of Moroccan citizen Saed El Harrak , a suspect alleged to be involved in the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombings , due to...
