Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry resumed his duties on the Supreme Court of Pakistan Saturday, a day after the high court reinstated Chaudhry and dismissed all charges of misconduct ...
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The US District Court of the Western District of Virgina on Friday sentenced three former executives of the Purdue Frederick Company , manufacturer of painkiller OxyContin , to three years of probation and 400 hours of community...
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri said Saturday that the government in Gaza Strip is replacing Palestinian Authority courts with a judicial panel consisting of an Islamic legal scholar, a military court lawyer, and a prison warden. Abu Zuhri said...
French authorities arrested five suspects accused of involvement in the 1994 Rwanda genocide Friday, including Rwandan Catholic priest Wenceslas Munyeshyaka and former civil servant Laurent Bucyibaruta, who may be extradited to the International Criminal Tribunal...
A top Republican legislator Friday called for an investigation into whether CIA agents leaked classified information to Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty about secret prisons for detaining suspected terrorists. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) [official...
The UN Security Council Friday abandoned a resolution on a UN-supervised independence plan for Kosovo out of concern that Russia would veto the proposal. Previous proposals have been rejected by Russia and...
A military jury sitting at Camp Pendleton, California, sentenced US Marine Cpl. Trent Thomas Friday to a bad-conduct discharge and reduced his rank to private for his role in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of...
Former Serbian state prosecutor Rade Terzic was arrested Friday for allegedly assisting members of a criminal gang connected with the murders of various Serbian officials escape prosecution while in Terzic was in office. Terzic is believed to have belonged...
The Nigerian government Friday withdrew and then filed an updated $7 billion lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer , adding a new charge of fraud stemming from a drug experiment conducted in the 1990s that allegedly killed...
US President George W. Bush Friday signed an executive order prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment during the interrogation terror suspects detained by the CIA. The White House did not reveal what specific interrogation techniques were now...
