A staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps was charged Tuesday with relaying secret national defense information to a person outside the government "with intent or reason to believe that the said information was to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation." [...]

A lawyer involved in the CIA leak case said Tuesday that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has identified himself as the "initial and primary source" for the Robert Novak column that revealed Valerie Plame Wilson's CIA affiliation. The New York Times also learned from lawyers close to the case that Armitage learned of [...]

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a pesticide rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , saying that the regulation does not violate the Clean Air Act even though it may conflict with an international environmental treaty signed by the US. In December 2004, the EPA issued a rule identifying the once-popular pesticide [...]

British police on Tuesday charged three people with conspiracy to murder and planning to smuggle "component parts of improvised explosive devices" onto airplanes in connection with the alleged terror plot to blow up US-bound planes over the Atlantic, bringing to 15 the total now charged in the episode. All three of the latest accused – [...]

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said during a one-day visit to Baghdad Tuesday that enforcement of the rule of law is essential to Iraq's future, but stressed that it was up to the country's leaders and people to determine what kind of law that would be. Gonzales met with local US Justice Department personnel working [...]

The prosecutor in the Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus, on Tuesday called for the death penalty in the case. The trial resumed on May 11 with the testimony of prosecution witnesses , including testimony from a young girl [...]

Saudi Arabia has released nine of 29 former Guantanamo detainees in its custody on Tuesday after investigations revealed that they had not committed any crimes. Charges are still being reviewed for the remainder. Earlier this year, the US transferred fifteen Saudi detainees who were then followed by an additional fourteen , after being cleared by [...]

Opposition parties in Jordan on Tuesday condemned anti-terrorism legislation approved Sunday by Jordan's National Assembly , comparing the new measures to "martial law" and voicing fear that the law will be used to curtail individual liberties. The new anti-terror law is the Jordanian government's first attempt to address and impose penalties on those involved in [...]

Former Central African Republic President Ange Felix Patasse was convicted in absentia Tuesday on fraud charges and sentenced to 20 years hard labor. Patasse and four other members of his former government have been charged with embezzlement and fraud stemming from transactions with the Libyan government in 1999 and 2000, but none were present for [...]

Two hundred families plan later this week to demand damages from SNCF , the French state-run railway system, in connection with the company's transportation of Jewish families to German concentration camps during World War II. The demand comes two months after a French trial court held SNCF liable for damages to the family of Alain [...]