German federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that they have charged a former Rwandan mayor with genocide relating to his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide . According to prosecutors, Onesphore Rwabukombe allegedly coordinated...
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A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that foreign diplomatic missions are not required to pay property taxes on real property used for housing staff and not...
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday dismissed piracy charges against six Somali men accused of involvement in the April attack on the USS Ashland in the...
Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday appeared before a government-backed commission investigating the events surrounding the island nation's civil war and defended the actions of the government during the conflict...
The UK High Court on Tuesday suspended enforcement of a regulation requiring airlines to compensate passengers for flights that are delayed for more than three hours, until the European Court of Justice (ECJ) releases a new ruling...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that a portion of the tax code requiring same-sex partners in a civil union to pay a larger inheritance tax than partners...
Former INTERPOL president and South African police chief Jackie Selebi on Tuesday filed for leave to appeal his sentence and conviction. A spokesperson for the South African National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) [official...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday issued an emergency stay pending an appeal of a federal judge's decision overturning Proposition 8, the California ban on same-sex...
US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Monday that environmental reviews will be required for all new deepwater drilling, temporarily halting exemptions that allowed oil companies to drill without environmental impact statements. The process...
A lawyer for former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) confirmed Monday that a US Department of Justice (DOJ) criminal probe into DeLay's association with lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been...
