Fiji's former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said Friday that police have failed to take his statement regarding treason allegations he has made against the country's interim prime minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama . Earlier this month, Qarase charged that Bainimarama and others who participated in a December 2006 military coup had committed treason by ousting Qarase's [...]

Serbian President Boris Tadic urged UN members Thursday to support his country's request for an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion on the legality of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo . In Thursday's letter to all UN members, Tadic stated: The opinion of the ICJ as to whether Kosovo’s unilateral independence declaration was [...]

US Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne pledged Thursday that he would "take swift action to restore the public trust" following an investigation which found corruption in the Department of the Interior (DOI) agency charged with collecting royalties from mineral rights to federal land. In a memorandum accompanying reports released Wednesday, DOI Inspector General Earl [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found Ljubisa Petkovic guilty of contempt on Thursday for refusing to testify against Serbian war crimes suspect Vojislav Seselj . Petkovic had been a member of the Serbian Radical Party , of which Seseli had been the president, and refused to testify as a witness for [...]

EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Jacques Barrot on Thursday said Google is taking a "step in the right direction" by keeping data on search engine users for nine months rather than 18. Google announced the change this week "to address regulatory concerns" and protect users' privacy . Barrot suggested that Google further reduce the [...]

A trial judge in Key West has found Florida's law preventing gay and lesbian people from adopting children to be unconstitutional and has issued an order permitting a foster parent to adopt a 13-year-old boy. Judge David J. Audlin Jr. of the Monroe County Circuit Court ruled that the 1977 statute violates both the US [...]

Iowa's Attorney General's Office announced on Tuesday that it has filed a complaint against meatpacking company Agriprocessors Inc. and its top officials for 9,311 child labor law violations. The alleged violations stem from the company's employment of 32 minors, 25 under the age of 18 and 7 under the age of 16, in conditions prohibited [...]

Retail chain Walgreens filed a lawsuit Monday in California Superior Court seeking an injunction and the repeal of an ordinance that prohibits the sale of tobacco at pharmacies in San Francisco . Walgreens argues that the ban is unconstitutional because it does not apply to grocery stores and large retailers such as Wal-Mart , which [...]

Human Rights in China (HRIC) issued a release on Wednesday saying that Chinese police and other officials still employ torture to elicit confessions and intimidate political dissidents despite domestic and international bans. The group said even though various government agencies have issued regulations against the use of torture, they aren't appropriately enforced. It also detailed [...]

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that the state has reached a settlement in a Medicare fraud lawsuit it had brought against drug manufacturer Abbott Laboratories . In the suit , Texas had alleged that Abbott Laboratories and other drug manufacturers had inflated drug prices that they reported to the state above what they [...]