Pakistani government lawyer Malik Muhammad Qayyum told reporters Tuesday that he supports giving suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry a public trial, saying that the government should respect Chaudhry's desire that the proceedings be...
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US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox defended the SEC's record from Democratic and Republican criticism before the US House Financial Services Committee Tuesday, testifying that the...
The European Commission (EC) reported Wednesday that new EU members Bulgaria and Romania need to do more to achieve judicial reform, fight corruption and organized crime . A report on Bulgaria's progress in...
The Seoul Administrative Court granted asylum Tuesday to a Chinese dissident who exposed allegations of human organ trading, overturning a ruling by the Ministry of Justice that denied asylum to the dissident and his family. The dissident, who is...
US Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Tuesday urged federal appellate court Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to recuse himself in "all pending and subsequent cases involving detainees and enemy combatants," after the Washington...
Three former officials from Saddam Hussein's regime, including Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid - known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali" , will likely be executed in the Kurdish cities of Irbil or Halabja...
The jury in the Jose Padilla terrorism conspiracy case heard new wiretap evidence Tuesday suggesting that Padilla's co-defendants supported Osama bin Laden . The prosecution first played a video interview that aired on CNN...
Former Deputy US Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles was sentenced to 10 months in prison Tuesday for his role in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. As part of the negotiated plea deal, the Department...
The US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee voted 39-2 Tuesday to endorse a non-binding resolution asking Japan to formally apologize for enslaving Chinese women during World War II. The bill,...
Amnesty International said Tuesday that humanitarian abuses have become commonplace in the Central African Republic (CAR) as the armed conflict between the government and opposition forces escalates, "virtually unnoticed by the international...
