Khaled Abu Arafa, the minister of Jerusalem affairs in the new Hamas-led Palestinian government , was detained Thursday by Israeli police as he attempted to meet his predecessor, Ziad Abu Zayyad, for administrative purposes. Reports indicate Abu Arafa...
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The Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006 received near-unanimous approval by the US House of Representatives Wednesday evening. The bill, if approved by the Senate and signed by...
527 Reform Act of 2006, passed by the US House of Representatives April 5, 2006 [bill that would require non-profit political groups, called "527s" for the tax code section under which they are organized, to register as political committees and...
The Saddam Hussein trial continued Thursday in Baghdad with testimony from Awad al-Bandar , the head of the Revolutionary Court who sentenced 148 Shiites to death in 1984 . Al-Bandar, one of the seven...
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the 527 Reform Act of 2006 , legislation that would require non-profit political groups, called "527s" for the tax code section under which they...
The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a criminal investigation into management by British Petroleum of oil pipelines in Alaska, according to a report in Thursday's Wall Street Journal. A corroded pipeline owned by...
A New Jersey state court jury on Wednesday rendered a split verdict after two days of deliberations in a joint trial that pitted two state residents who took the painkiller Vioxx [Merck Vioxx Information Center website; JURIST...
US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday that jurors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui will be allowed to hear the cockpit tape and read the transcript of United...
The Belarus government has charged close to 600 people who participated in the protests that followed the March 19 presidential election that returned incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko to a third term in a...
French judicial officials have begun an investigation of the 172 French companies implicated in the UN oil-for-food scandal by the October 2005 report of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) chaired by...
