Brazilian intelligence service Abin has pledged to investigate published reports that its agents wiretapped a variety of top Brazilian officials, including Supreme Federal Court president Gilmar Mendes. Veja , a Brazilian weekly...

The leaders of Italy and Libya Saturday signed a accord under which Italy pledged to invest $5 billion in Libya as compensation for its colonial rule over the north African state from 1911 to 1943....

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence reached a settlement agreement Friday with four claimants who say they were abused by priests several decades ago and that church officials had taken steps to cover up...

London's High Court Friday gave UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband a week to defend his office's refusal earlier this month to turn over documents relating to the alleged extraordinary rendition and...

Pakistani authorities Saturday reinstated four more judges ousted from their positions in November when former President Pervez Musharraf proclaimed emergency rule. The reappointment of four judges of the Lahore High Court follows an announcement Wednesday that eight other judges...

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) quashed a 25-year prison sentence against former Rwandan army officer Tharcisse Muvunyi Friday, ruling that there was insufficient evidence for his conviction on charges...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday that the conviction and 210 month prison sentence of Juan Francisco Salazar, who was convicted of tampering with a witness in a drug trial,...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Friday ruled that a Minnesota school district must give a student group advocating gay rights the same access to...

Pakistani Law Minister Farooq H. Naek told reporters Thursday that ousted Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry cannot be reinstated because the current chief justice was legitimately appointed . Naek said...

Two former generals were convicted Thursday of killing a senator during the so-called "dirty war" in Argentina and have been sentenced to life terms of house arrest. A court in Tucuman province found Antonio Bussi [New...