Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was found guilty Tuesday of making false statements to the FBI, but the jury in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois was deadlocked on 23 additional charges. The jury deliberated for 14 days after the 11-week trial but was unable to reach a consensus on all [...]

Sri Lankan Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday appeared before a government-backed commission investigating the events surrounding the island nation’s civil war and defended the actions of the government during the conflict with the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) . The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), appointed in May by Sri Lankan [...]

Spanish officials announced this week that Spain has launched an investigation into whether Google violated privacy laws while collecting information over Wi-Fi networks for its Street View maps . Madrid judge Raquel Fernandino issued a subpoena for an October 4 appearance by a Google representative over a lawsuit filed by Apedanica, a Spanish association of [...]

The UK High Court on Tuesday suspended enforcement of a regulation requiring airlines to compensate passengers for flights that are delayed for more than three hours, until the European Court of Justice (ECJ) releases a new ruling on the issue. In November, the ECJ ruled that airline passengers confronted with flight delays of three hours [...]

Hezbollah officials on Tuesday submitted evidence to the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) linking Israel to the the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri . The submission was in response to a request by the tribunal last week for Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah to turn over all information he possesses to [...]

Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that a portion of the tax code requiring same-sex partners in a civil union to pay a larger inheritance tax than partners in opposite-sex marriages is unconstitutional. Under Germany’s current tax code, citizens in homosexual civil unions are required to pay between 17 and 50 percent for an inheritance [...]

Former INTERPOL president and South African police chief Jackie Selebi on Tuesday filed for leave to appeal his sentence and conviction. A spokesperson for the South African National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) confirmed that they received his application and that they would be opposing the appeal. Selebi was sentenced earlier this month to 15 years in [...]

A federal judge on Monday rejected a $75 million settlement reached between Citigroup and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month to resolve charges of misleading investors about Citigroup’s exposure to sub-prime mortgage-related assets. Citigroup represented that its sub-prime exposure was $13 billion or less, when it was more than $50 billion at [...]

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday issued an emergency stay pending an appeal of a federal judge’s decision overturning Proposition 8, the California ban on same-sex marriage . The stay will prohibit California from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples while the court of appeals considers [...]

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday released a partially redacted opinion ordering the release of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif for lack of evidence. The district court granted Latif’s habeas corpus petition in July, but the ruling was not made public until this week. Judge Henry Kennedy [...]