Rwandan Foreign Minister Charles Murigande and the registrar of the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) , Adama Dieng signed an agreement Tuesday allowing those convicted by the genocide tribunal to serve...
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US Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the US District Court of Arizona to charges including extortion, money laundering, and wire fraud in connection with a complex land scheme....
Italian prosecutors have filed an appeal of a Rome court's dismissal of a criminal case against US Army Spc. Mario Lozano for the alleged 2005 murder of Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari [BBC profile; JURIST...
The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in consolidated cases challenging California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage . In 2006, the state Attorney General requested that the Court review an...
Some 200 Afghan parliamentarians demonstrated Tuesday at the parliament building in Kabul against last month's reprinting of a cartoon depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Poste . The protesters urged the government to...
A federal judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Barr Pharmaceuticals seeking to overturn...
The National Parliament of East Timor voted Monday to recommend that an international commission be formed to investigate last month's assassination attempts against East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao [BBC...
Egyptian security officials arrested 54 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood Tuesday, as Egypt began candidate registration for the upcoming April 8 provincial council elections . Egypt's provincial councils administer local municipal government services....
Serbian prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the arrest of an unidentified suspect believed to be responsible for the burning of the US embassy in Belgrade last month. The unidentified suspect, who is facing charges of violating public security...
US Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff sent letters to the governors of several states on Monday, urging them to comply with an upcoming deadline to adopt comprehensive driver's license standards to bring their state IDs in...
