The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday voted 14-4 to approve the so-called New START treaty between Russia and the US. Along with 11 Democrats, three Republicans voted for its passage,...
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Lebanon should improve its judicial system by providing mechanisms to better protect the basic rights of domestic workers and more ardently prosecuting those who violate them, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report ...
Two terror suspects accused of aiding al Qaeda pleaded not guilty Thursday to three additional charges. On Tuesday, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced a superseding indictment...
The US Department of Defense announced Thursday that two former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Germany . German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said that state authorities...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday asked a federal judge to drop fraud and conspiracy charges against a former Merrill Lynch executive accused of taking part in the Enron Nigerian...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Wednesday indicted four former Khmer Rouge leaders. The indicted leaders, Ieng Sary , Ieng Thirith , Khieu...
The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday that communication between in-house lawyers and management is not protected by legal professional privilege during competition investigations by the European Commission (EC) . The ECJ...
A Long Island man was charged Wednesday with providing funds to the man who attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square in May. The US Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, FBI and New...
Senegalese security forces are engaging in systematic torture, often leading to the death of those detained, according to a report released Wednesday by Amnesty International (AI) . AI claims that this leaves victims' families with no...
A court in Kyrgyzstan issued the first convictions Wednesday in connection with the June 2010 ethnic violence , handing down prison terms for eight ethnic Uzbeks. The case stems from the murder of a Kyrgyz...
