A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed half of a whistleblower suit filed by former US Attorney Richard Convertino, who alleged that he was retaliated against after cooperating with a US Senate investigation into the failed...

The US House of Representatives is expected on Thursday to approve a bill that will block various civil lawsuits filed against US gun manufacturers. Both Republicans and Democrats predicted that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms...

The Malawi parliament has adopted procedures for the impeachment of the country's president, who has been accused of misusing state funds and violating the country's constitution. Legislators approved the procedures late Tuesday in a...

Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev have reportedly been sent to remote prisons in Siberia and the far north of the country to serve eight-year sentences...

Colombia's Constitutional Court Wednesday upheld legislation that would change the country's constitution to allow presidents to serve more than one term, a ruling that could allow Colombian President Alvaro Uribe [official website in Spanish; BBC...

Morocco has prevented UN officials from visiting African migrants detained in the country despite repeated requests for access, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported Wednesday. The agency has said it fears that Morocco has forced many...

Iraqi police on Wednesday arrested a nephew of Saddam Hussein in Tikrit on charges that he has served as a leading financier of the country's insurgency, Iraqi security officials reported. Yasir Sabhawi Ibrahim is the son...

The US Senate moved Wednesday to cut federal funding for projects that seize peoples' homes for private development, continuing a backlash to a recent controversial ruling by the US Supreme Court . The amendment...

New York Times reporter Judith Miller and US Attorney Chuck Rosenberg on Wednesday offered differing takes on the need for federal legislation to protect confidentiality of journalists' sources during a Senate Judiciary Committee [official...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed personal records of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist in its investigation into possible insider trading by Frist, the Washington Post reported Thursday . The...