US officials plan to request that convicted sex offender Malcolm Watson serve his three-year probation in New York instead of Canada. According to Erie County District Attorney Frank J. Clark , the request is motivated by complaints from...
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An attorney for US Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) argued before the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday that the leaking of an illegally-obtained phone call to the news media should be protected by the First Amendment....
Canada faces a lawsuit from conservationist group Friends of the Earth for failing to meet its emissions goals under the Kyoto Protocol , which government officials have deemed to be untenable. The group presented a...
The nephew of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was sentenced to a year in prison by a military tribunal Tuesday for his comments implicating the military in the assassination of his uncle over 25 years ago [BBC...
The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 Libyan patients, primarily children , with the HIV virus was adjourned Tuesday after resuming for only one day since a...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Philip Morris USA v. Williams , 05-1256, a case challenging the punitive damages awarded in a wrongful death...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his government has no plans to abolish Article 301 of the country's penal code, despite warnings from the European Union ...
Leading US auto supplier Delphi has settled civil fraud charges brought against it by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) , the SEC announced Monday. The SEC complaint alleged that "between...
Russian human rights activists held vigil in Lubyanka Square, former KBG headquarters and current location of the Federal Security Service, in Moscow on Monday to commemorate victims of political persecution during the Soviet Era and to protest current prosecution...
US Customs and Border Patrol agents arrested significantly fewer illegal immigrants attempting to cross US borders in fiscal year 2006 than in the previous year, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported...
