Former US Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) was sentenced Friday to 30 months imprisonment for receiving gifts and campaign contributions in exchange for political favors. Ney pleaded guilty last October to conspiracy and...

Members of a German parliamentary committee investigating the detention of German-born Turk Murat Kurnaz at Guantanamo Bay alleged Thursday that the government of German ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder allowed him to remain a prisoner for years,...

The trial of 22-year-old Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Nabil , who has been in detention since November on charges of insulting Islam and causing sectarian strife in his blog , has begun in the Mediterranean city...

A jury in California could not reach a decision on the third of a series of questions on a verdict form in the consolidated cases of two men who blamed their heart attacks on the painkiller Vioxx [JURIST news...

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton has placed 10 more potential jurors on standby in the CIA leak trial of former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby . On...

Turkish-Armenian author Hrant Dink, journalist and editor of the newspaper Agos , was shot and killed Friday in Istanbul. Dink was one of several writers to have been charged recently with "insulting the Turkish identity" in...

Speaker of the US House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) committed House Democrats to joining the Senate Democrats Thursday in supporting nonbinding legislation declaring that "it is not in the national interest of the United States to deepen...

The Venezuelan National Assembly gave preliminary approval Thursday to a measure that would allow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to rule by decree for 18 months. The initial vote was...

The Rwandan cabinet has agreed to abolish capital punishment, the country's justice minister said Friday, clearing the way for the extradition of defendants facing trial for the 1994 Rwandan genocide , during which over 800,000 people were killed....

The US Senate passed the Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2007 by a 96-2 vote Thursday, but declined to create a Senate Office of Public Integrity to investigate ethics breaches....