James Edward Steph, a former oil executive of a subsidiary of Willbros Group Inc. , pleaded guilty Monday to charges of conspiracy relating to a scheme to bribe Nigerian officials heading the country's state-owned oil company,...
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Former Venezuelan Defense Minister Raul Baduel spoke out against the constitutional reforms pushed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday, claiming that the proposed reforms would deprive the Venezuelan people of their power over...
Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang and General Counsel Michael Callahan Tuesday defended Yahoo's behavior in providing information to the Chinese government at a hearing before the US House Committee...
Pakistani police Tuesday arrested more lawyers involved in protesting President Pervez Musharraf's Saturday declaration of emergency, suspension of the constitution, and effective dismissal of Pakistan's Supreme Court. AFP reports that some 50 lawyers were arrested at the Lahore High...
A federal jury sitting in San Diego Monday convicted former US defense contractor Brent Wilkes of 13 felonies, including money laundering, fraud and conspiracy, in connection with bribes he paid to disgraced former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham ....
The newly-reconstituted Supreme Court of Pakistan officially ruled Tuesday that the order against President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule issued Saturday by a seven-person Supreme Court bench led by now-dismissed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was...
US District Judge Amy St. Eve of the Northern District of Illinois Monday rejected a motion for a new trial or an acquittal filed by Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black...
Wire services are reporting that the US Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-8 Tuesday in favor of the nomination of former federal judge Michael Mukasey to serve as the next US attorney general. Mukasey's nomination...
A Chadian prosecutor Monday questioned Europeans detained for attempting to airlift 103 children from Chad, including three Spanish flight crew members and five workers from the French charity Zoe's Ark ....
The Federal Court of Canada ruled Monday that Amnesty International and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association should be granted public interest standing to seek judicial review of the actions or potential actions of Canadian...
