Microsoft will take the necessary steps to comply with a 2004 European Commission (EC) antitrust ruling against it, the EC announced Monday. The software company has agreed to allow open source...
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Russia will create an organization to track and monitor human rights abuses in Europe and the US, according to Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer on Russia's new Public Chamber , an ombudsman-like body established two years ago...
UK Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Jack Straw favors televising proceedings of the UK Supreme Court, the Times reported Monday. The new top court, created by the Constitutional Reform Act of 2005 , is...
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Monday to "take legal action" against 400 companies that allegedly supplied chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988...
Taiwanese lawmaker Gao Jyh-peng of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) led by beleaguered Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian was indicted Monday on graft charges. Prosecutors allege that Gao, a close acquaintance of Chen,...
Preliminary results show that a majority of Turkish voters have backed constitutional reforms put to a nationwide referendum Sunday. About half of the votes have been tallied and 72 percent of ballots have been in favor of...
A special FBI task force is reworking cases against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the other so-called "high-value" Guantanamo Bay detainees over concerns that information and confessions previously obtained by the CIA may be inadmissible in...
Citizens of Kyrgyzstan voted Sunday in a constitutional referendum proposed by Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev last month. The proposed amendments to the Kyrgyz constitution include increasing the number of...
The US Department of Justice has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to dismiss a lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan on the grounds that the case would disclose classified information...
The military government of Myanmar Saturday lifted a curfew in the capital Yangon and ended a ban on assembly imposed during the junta's deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests. The decision is the latest sign that Myanmar...
