California Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced Monday that Reliant Energy and California, Oregon, Washington and three other utility companies, have reached a financial settlement for legal claims against Reliant concerning its alleged price-gouging and manipulation of energy...

Ahmed Salman Dawd al-Zubaidi, Ahmed Muthanna Jassem Ahmed Al-Aani, and Mohammed Mahdi Abderrahman Aasi al-Kanani, all Iraqi intelligence agents under the Saddam Hussein regime, entered pleas of not guilty Monday as they were arraigned before a Yemeni court for...

China's UN Ambassador, Wang Guangya , indicated on Sunday that China was opposed to the call for an end-of-the-year deadline for UN reform by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan . Annan originally wanted an agreement reached...

Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda , a reporter for KFM Radio, was arraigned and released on bail Monday, following his plea of not guilty to charges of sedition, allegedly committed when he "uttered words with the intention to bring...

US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein will hear arguments Monday from US Department of Defense lawyers and attorneys from the ACLU concerning whether photos taken by Spc. Joseph M. Darby of Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST...

In the first national poll conducted by the government in Iraq, over two-thirds of all respondents said they favored increased rights for women, so long as those rights did not violate the teachings of Islam. The poll, which was...

The Non-Governmental Organisations Co-ordinating Board of Kenya may be empowered to conduct tighter reviews of the legal status of NGOs operating in Kenya, after several members of the Kenyan Parliament raised loud objections over the...

AP is reporting that, according to a Shiite lawmaker, Monday's Iraqi parliament session on the draft Iraqi constitution has been postponed for two hours. The draft constitution must be submitted to the National Assembly Monday in...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said Monday that the country will hold a referendum on September 29 on a draft charter for peace and national reconciliation for those involved in the instability and conflicts of the last 13...

During a Sunday rally co-sponsored by the conservative Christian groups Family Research Council and Focus on the Family , leaders slammed "judicial tyranny" and said the goal of the event was to educate evangelical Christians about...