CNN is reporting that former Enron founder Kenneth Lay is dead. According to a spokesman for Lay's family, Lay suffered a massive heart attack in Aspen, Colorado on Tuesday evening. Lay, along with former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling , was convicted in May on fraud and conspiracy charges for providing investors with false and misleading [...]

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday called for an independent Iraqi inquiry into allegations that US soldiers raped an Iraqi woman and murdered her and her family near the town of Mahmudiya in March. Al-Maliki said during a visit to Kuwait that he believes "immunity granted to international forces has emboldened them to commit [...]

Joseph Kony , leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, will be granted amnesty if upcoming LRA negotiations with the southern Sudanese government proceed smoothly and if he renounces terrorist activity, according a statement released Tuesday by the press secretary for Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni . Kony was indicted by the International [...]

The retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting more than 400 Libyan patients, primarily children, with HIV resumed Tuesday in Tripoli. The court heard testimony from three prosecution witnesses – parents of infected children – who identified the defendants as the medical workers who infected their children. Judge Mahmoud al-Huweissa [...]

Claiming that some ballots were counted twice and others not at all because of fraud, Mexico's Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) is demanding a full recount of votes in last weekend's presidential election. Preliminary results showed the PRD's candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , trailing Felipe Calderon , of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) , [...]

Police arrested two Italian intelligence officers Wednesday, including a senior official, in connection with the alleged extraordinary rendition of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr , also known as Abu Omar. Judicial sources said that Marco Mancini, a division director of Italy's Military Intelligence and Security Service (SISMI) , the Italian intelligence organization, will be [...]

Microsoft has said that it will comply with sanctions imposed by the South Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) after the Seoul High Court rejected a request by Microsoft to stay the penalties while Microsoft appeals the KFTC ruling in the Seoul High Court. Tuesday's rejection of Microsoft's stay request has no bearing on the pending [...]

Republicans from the US House of Representatives begin a series of immigration hearings Wednesday in order to assess the threats at the country's borders and the labor needs to combat those threats in preparation for final negotiations on comprehensive immigration reform . The House International Relations Committee Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation will hold [...]

Ben Davis : "As the debate intensifies in an election year in Congress over what to do after the Supreme Court decision in the Hamdan case last week, I would ask two things: in drafting legislation listen to the uniformed military lawyers, and make sure the Senate Armed Services Committee under Senator John Warner has [...]

Former Qatari justice minister Najib al-Nuaimi has said that any attempt by the Iraqi government to extradite Saddam Hussein's first wife Sajida from her current presumed residence in Qatar would fail. Al-Nuaimi, currently a member of Saddam Hussein's defense team, told AFP in an interview published Tuesday that extradition would require adherence to certain procedures [...]