Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday asked Swiss officials to reopen a corruption investigation against Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari . The request was made in a letter from the NAB, the country's...
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A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia criticized the government Tuesday for a lack of accountability, despite granting approval to a $3 million settlement agreement in a civil...
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed suit on Tuesday challenging the strict visitation and communication restrictions at two experimental federal prison units called "Communications Management Units" (CMUs). The complaint...
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act , which represents a group of amendments to the recently approved health care legislation and...
Corruption, abuse of power, and a focus on short-term security goals in Afghanistan have intensified the issue of poverty, affecting more than two-thirds of the population, according to a Tuesday report from the UN's Office...
The Turkish ruling party on Tuesday submitted its controversial reform package to parliament, despite warnings from Turkish President Abdullah Gul that the party should take more precautions before amending the constitution. The reform package contains seven revisions...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In Dillon v. United States , the court heard arguments on whether the...
The French Council of State on Tuesday advised the French government that a complete ban on full Islamic veils risks violating the French Constitution and the European Convention on Human...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday threatened to imprison the head of the country's corruption agency for failing to meet a 24-hour deadline to reopen several corruption cases. Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry [official profile; JURIST...
The Paris Appellate Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court's 2008 decision finding French oil company Total and several other defendants criminally liable for an oil spill that occurred of the coast of...
