A group of 111 opposition politicians, rights activists, aid workers and journalists went on trial Tuesday in Ethiopia on charges of treason, inciting violence and attempting to commit genocide, despite calls from human rights groups for their...
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has launched a judicial inquiry into the 1985 Air India terrorist bombing that killed 329 people, most of them Canadians, on a flight over the North Atlantic. The...
2005 Wiretap Report, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, May 1, 2006 . Read the full...
Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, International Atomic Energy Agency, April 28, 2006 [reporting that Iran has enriched uranium in defiance of a March UN Security Council demand that it immediately suspend its nuclear...
Projet de loi relatif à l'immigration et à l'intégration . Excerpt from the "Exposé des motifs", by French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy:L'immigration demeure aujourd'hui sans rapport avec les capacités d'accueil de la...
Leading Tuesday's international brief, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has resigned his position, removing the last legal hurdle to the formation of a new Italian government under Prime Minister-elect Romano Prodi [BBC profile,...
The Administrative Court of Thailand said Tuesday that it will probably release a decision in mid-May on whether the country's April 2 general election should be annulled. Considering its overlapping jurisdiction with two other Thai...
US courts approved 1,773 requests for wiretaps last year in state and federal investigations, a four percent increase from the prior year, according to the 2005 Wiretap Report released Monday by the Administrative Office...
The US has urged Nigeria against amending its constitution to allow current President Olusegun Obasanjo to run for a third term in office. In an unusual statement, the US Embassy...
The trial for former Alabama Governor Donald Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy begins Tuesday as the pair face federal bribery and racketeering charges . Siegelman is accused...