Japan's Nagoya High Court Thursday upheld a district court's denial of compensation to a group of seven South Korean women who were former slave laborers at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.'s aircraft factories during World War II, finding...
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A Saudi Arabian detainee held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay died Wednesday afternoon in what military officials characterized as an apparent suicide . The officials did not identify the...
The UN Security Council Wednesday approved a resolution to establish an ad hoc international tribunal to investigate and try suspects in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri [JURIST news...
The Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have expanded internal investigations into whether politics played a role in hiring decisions within the department, the DOJ...
US federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging four current and former partners of "Big-Four" accounting firm Ernst & Young with tax fraud. The indictment alleges that the defendants created tax shelters...
Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, commander of the US Marine battalion that was accused of killing 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005, went before a military Article 32 hearing Wednesday...
The Ministry of Defense and Support for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran v. Cubic Defense Systems, Inc., v. Dariush Elahi, US Court of Appeals for the Nine Circuit, May 30, 2007 [holding that a plaintiff can...
Chief Justice Tulay Tugcu of Turkey's Constitutional Court asked prosecutors Wednesday to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for televised comments made Tuesday that...
A Kuwaiti appeals court upheld the acquittal of two former Guantanamo Bay detainees Tuesday, agreeing with a lower court that there was insufficient evidence to convict . The two men, Omar Rajab Amin and Abdullah...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California Wednesday against San Jose-based Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan , alleging that the...
