Cambodian officials on Tuesday arrested former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea and escorted him to a hearing before the co-investigating judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) , the...

Former Milberg Weiss partner William S. Lerach has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice charges in a plot in which Milberg Weiss allegedly paid up to $11.3 million in illegal kickbacks since 1984 to...

The US Senate voted Tuesday 57-42 against proceeding with debate on the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act , killing the bill before it reached Senate consideration by falling three votes...

A US Marine Corps commanding officer ordered Tuesday that charges be dismissed against Marine Capt. Lucas McConnell for failing to report the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha . McConnell was granted...

France's National Assembly , the lower house of the French parliament, Tuesday debated a new immigration bill proposing tightened requirements for foreigners seeking to join immigrant relatives in...

Lawyers for Brent Wilkes , a defense contractor connected to disgraced former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham , have subpoenaed 13 members of Congress to testify at Wilkes' October 2 trial. All of the lawmakers, including former House...

The US House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Tuesday announced an investigation into whether State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard interfered with a fraud investigation related to construction of a new US embassy...

US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell pushed for new and permanent changes to a recently passed temporary surveillance law in a statement to the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. The Protect America Act...

The Communist Party of Nepal - Maoists (CPN-M) announced Tuesday that it is vacating the interim government and boycotting future elections until its demands for parliament to immediately declare the country a federal democratic republic were met....

Two advocacy groups in the Philippines said Tuesday that children are often the victims of extrajudicial killings, citing statistics compiled by Karapatan (The Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights) . The Salinlahi Alliance for...