US District Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California extended a temporary restraining order Monday blocking the implementation of a new US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations intended to make it...
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UN special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari met with opposition leader and democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi and with top Myanmar military leader Senior General Than Shwe during separate meetings Tuesday to discuss...
London's Metropolitan Police Service mistakenly killed Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes ' because of a flawed plan to carry out an anti-terrorism operation after the July 21 London transit bombing attempts in...
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr asked the US Court of Military Commission Review Monday to reconsider last month's decision reinstating charges against Khadr. In June, military judge Col....
Four doctors and a New Jersey pharmaceutical company were acquitted Monday of all criminal charges surrounding the dissemination of a tainted blood clotting product in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, a public health disaster that infected more than...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Monday that it would send a team of investigators to Iraq to study the circumstances surrounding a September shooting incident involving employees of the privately contracted security firm Blackwater USA [corporate...
The trial of controversial al-Dustour editor Ibrahim Eissa on charges of allegedly spreading "rumors" about the health of Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak in an August newspaper report began in Cairo Monday. Eissa chose...
A new law protecting private property in China took effect Monday, after it was approved by the Chinese National People's Congress in March. Chinese lawmakers considered the bill for over 13 years and it underwent...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Board of Education of the City of New York v. Tom F. , 06-637, in which the Court...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has confirmed its ruling that a Polish woman's rights were violated when she was denied an abortion based on medical concerns that the pregnancy may cause her to go blind. Alicja Tysiac...
