A senior Thai Justice Ministry official said Thursday that Thailand will renew a probe into the anti-drug campaign of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra during which close to 2,500 people were killed. Thaksin's...

A military court-martial jury Thursday found US Marine Corps Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III guilty of murder for his role in the April 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania [USMC...

The US Senate voted 83-14 in favor of a new ethics bill that will require congressmen and other officials to make public additional information about money involving personal projects and lobbies. The legislation also...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held Thursday that insurance policies held by many victims of Hurricane Katrina did not cover flood damage caused by the storm. Writing for...

Chinese Communist Party discipline commission spokesman Gan Yisheng said Thursday that China's use of capital punishment in political and economic corruption cases is appropriate and effective. Gan justified the punishment saying that it had "been endorsed by the Chinese...

The Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice Wednesday suspended an order issued by the government's telecommunication commission requiring Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) to register as a "national audiovisual production service" or face...

The US House Judiciary Committee approved new legislation on Wednesday shielding reporters from being compelled to disclose confidential sources. Under the bill, journalists could not be forced by prosecutors to reveal their informants unless...

The UK Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) issued a report Thursday on the shooting death of Jean Charles de Menezes , an innocent Brazilian man mistaken for a terrorist by police in...

China's Shanxi province High People's Court announced the conviction of 31 defendants in 18 separate trials for their involvement in the use of slave labor at various brick kilns in the Shanxi and Henan provinces Thursday. The defendants were...

The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court restricted the government's monitoring of e-mail and telephone conversations of suspected terrorists in foreign countries in a ruling publicly disclosed Thursday. According to US House Minority Leader John...