Two human rights lawyers in Vietnam were ordered to return to a police station for additional questioning Monday after they were detained over the weekend for hosting a discussion on human rights law. Nguyen Van Dai...

The chairman of Hyundai Motors Group was convicted Monday of embezzling company funds and allegedly using secret accounts to bribe politicians in South Korea . Chung Mong-koo received a three-year prison...

Russian prosecutors have brought new money laundering charges against former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky , his lawyers said Monday. Khodorkovsky was convicted in May 2005 of tax evasion [JURIST...

Argentinean Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide said Monday that extraditing former Argentine President Isabel Peron from Spain could take more than a year, if it ever happens at all. Argentinean authorities are seeking Peron's return to Argentina [JURIST...

The US Marine Corps said Monday that it will launch an investigation into the leak of a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) report on the killing of Iraqi civilians in Haditha [USMC timeline; JURIST news...

A former US contractor working for the US Department of Defense in Iraq received a nine-year prison sentence Monday and was told he must forfeit the $3.6 million he received for awarding contracts to...

The government of Norway has proposed new legislation that would allow embryonic stem cell research to potentially find cures for various diseases. Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Services Silvia Brustad said...

The city council of Farmers Branch, Texas Monday unanimously approved revisions to a city ordinance requiring apartment renters to show proof of US residency and penalizing landlords who rent to illegal immigrants . The original...

The head of Catholic bishops in Italy Monday denounced a plan by the Italian government to give same-sex couples many of the rights that heterosexual couples enjoy. Cardinal Camillo Ruini spoke to a conference...

US Army Col. Michael Steele has been formally reprimanded for giving improper orders to soldiers in Iraq, leading to the deaths of four unarmed Iraqi civilians near Samarra last May, according to recent reports by two US...