The US military is investigating reports that five US soldiers raped a young woman in the city of Mahmudiyah and then killed her and three family members last March, an anonymous official...

Uzbekistan moved closer to abolishing the death penalty on Thursday as Uzbek President Islam Karimov ordered the establishment of a commission charged with drafting anti-death penalty legislation as well as new criminal laws, both substantive and procedural,...

A panel of federal judges in Texas has given parties to a lawsuit over Texas' congressional district two weeks to propose a solution to the 2003 Texas redistricting plan for the 23rd Congressional District, which...

Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has said that a group of two dozen Hamas MPs and ministers who were detained Thursday will not be held in administrative detention under the Incarceration of Unlawful...

Tenet Healthcare has agreed to pay $900 million to resolve federal allegations of illegal Medicare billing practices. Tenet was charged in 2003 with violating the False Claims Act by...

In a victory for German Chancellor Angela Merkel , a package of constitutional reforms aimed at separating and clarifying the powers of the federal and state governments passed Germany's lower house of parliament in...

A federal judge has extended a temporary restraining order preventing the state of Georgia from fully enforcing a law that restricts where convicted sex offenders can live. The restraining order issued Monday applied only to...

The Turkish Grand National Assembly broadened the country's anti-terror laws Thursday by adopting new legislation that delays a suspect's guaranteed access to a lawyer for the first 24 hours of detention and expands...

The French Senate and National Assembly gave final approval Friday to the so-called "iTunes" copyright legislation , meaning the bill will soon become law assuming the failure of a constitutional challenge filed last week by the...

The US House of Representatives voted 232-187 Thursday to approve the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act , which "provide for exploration, development, and production activities for mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf ."...