The city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania on Friday agreed to delay for 20 days enforcement of a tough new local law against illegal immigration while it rewrites the ordinance in an effort to bolster it...
Resolution 1706 (2006), expanding the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) to include its deployment to Darfur in order to support the early and effective implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement, UN Security Council, August 31,...
Two days of court-ordered mediation have resulted in a $16.65 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee and 10 people who alleged they were sexually abused by a priest whom the diocese transferred to California,...
The government of Croatia has asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for amicus curiae status under Rule 74 of the ICTY Rules of Procedure and Evidence...
The US Department of Education gave personal data about several hundred student loan applicants to the FBI as part of an anti-terrorism program called Project Strikeback, the New York Times reported Friday....
The regional chief executive of Newmont Mining Corporation , an American gold-mining company with a subsidiary in Indonesia, testified Friday in his criminal pollution trial. Richard Ness , who is accused of placing arsenic and mercury into...
A Peruvian judge on Thursday indicted Ollanta Humala , the opposition leader who narrowly lost the June Peruvian presidential election to present incumbent Alan Garcia...
A tough amendment to Russia's copyright protection law designed to crack down on the Internet piracy of text, music and videos took effect Friday as part of Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization [official...
Several voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Ohio Thursday demanding that Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell preserve the paper ballots from the 2004 presidential election , just...
An attorney for US Army Sgt. Ricky Clousing , an Iraq war veteran, said Thursday that his client will face a desertion charge at a special court-martial stemming from his June 2005 defection from Fort Bragg ....