Argentine President Nestor Kirchner Friday authorized officials to reveal state secrets concerning human rights violations that occurred during the infamous "Dirty War" crackdown on dissidents between 1976 and 1983 that...
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The Committee to Protect Journalists , an international press freedom group, lashed out Friday at new media rules imposed in Bangladesh Thursday in the wake of the government's declaration of a state of emergency earlier this...
The US Army announced Friday that it will proceed to court-martial Lt. Col. Steven Lee Jordan for his alleged role in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. Jordan, the highest-ranking Army officer...
Officials at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia said Friday that after two weeks of renewed discussion of the procedural rules to govern the trials of Khmer Rouge suspects accused of involvement in the "killing...
Judge L. T. Senter, Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday rejected for the time being a proposed settlement reached between the State Farm insurance company...
A Jordanian appeals court has upheld a military court's death sentence for a would-be Iraqi suicide bomber who attempted to detonate a suicide bomb as part of a series of 2005 deadly hotel bombings in Amman. Sajida...
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has unanimously approved a regulation that will prohibit utilities from buying electricity produced by power plants whose emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) exceed the state's standards. The rule [CPUC...
A federal judge in Nebraska ruled Friday that the state cannot enforce a 25-year old ban on corporate farming while it appeals a US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeal decision ruling the ban unconstitutional. As anticipated , Nebraska...
Prosecutor v. Charles Taylor, Joint Decision on Defense Motions for Adequate Facilities and Adequate Time for the Preparation of Mr. Taylor's Defense, Special Court for Sierra Leone, January 23, 2007 [delaying the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor until...
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston South Carolina has agreed to set aside $12 million to compensate victims and relatives of victims of clergy sex abuse going back before 1980, according...
