The Italian Chamber of Deputies approved a bill Wednesday that would allow cabinet ministers, including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , to postpone criminal proceedings against them on the...
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The president of China's Supreme People's Court , Wang Shengjun , called Wednesday for increased efforts to fight corruption in the country's court system. While Shengjun noted that progress has been...
Spokesperson for Iraq's Shi'ite government Ali Al-Dabbagh said Thursday that a decision by an appeals court to allow candidates with suspected ties to the outlawed Baath party to run for office is illegal...
US Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday defended his decision to charge suspected terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , the so-called Christmas Day bomber, in US federal court. Holder, who has resisted calls from...
A jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday convicted Aafia Siddiqui , a Pakistani woman with alleged ties to al Qaeda, on charges of attempting to murder...
An Amsterdam trial court ruled Wednesday that it has jurisdiction to try right-wing politician Geert Wilders for statements against Islam. The court rejected Wilders's claim that...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the majority of an injunction against an Oklahoma anti-illegal immigration law, but did permit the state to enact a provision whereby businesses would have to check their employment roster against...
A Chinese police official said Wednesday that three people have been arrested for their involvement in the 2008 melamine-tainted milk scandal . The general manager of Lekang Dairy Co., Zhang Wenxue, as well as vice...
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday reversed a Pre-Trial Chamber decision that denied the application for an arrest warrant on genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir [JURIST...
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim entered a plea of not guilty on Wednesday at the start of his sodomy trial. Anwar's defense lawyers are hoping to postpone the trial until the resolution of his...
