Pro-democracy demonstrators in Nepal marched in the streets again on Monday for a fifth straight day to protest the direct rule government of King Gyanendra , defying curfews , tear gas and rubber bullets. Local press reports say that "scores" of protestors were injured and dozens arrested as they defied Gyanendra's ban on public meetings [...]

Charles Taylor , the former president of Liberia indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) , will challenge a prosecutor's motion that seeks to move his trial from Freetown, Sierra Leone, to The Hague in the Netherlands, his British lawyer announced Monday. Prosecutors told officials of the UN-backed court that a move from [...]

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling testified in his own defense on Monday, asserting that he is "absolutely innocent" of fraud and conspiracy charges and added that he would "fight those charges until the day I die." Skilling also told jurors that former Enron executives who pleaded guilty to fraud charges and agreed to testify against [...]

A UK High Court judge on Monday overturned laws designed to fight the rising number of "sham marriages" within the United Kingdom, ruling that the rules discriminated against immigrants and were incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights . The laws, which took effect in February 2005, required people born outside the European Union [...]

Protests continued at 32 of France's 84 universities Monday, despite separate announcements from French President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin earlier in the day that the section of a recently-enacted law on equality of opportunity establishing the so-called First Employment Contract (contrat premiere embauche, CPE) would be "replaced." Rather than increasing the [...]

President Bush defended his decision to declassify intelligence regarding the Iraq war Monday, responding to allegations of wrongdoing revealed during the CIA leak case . Addressing students and foreign policy analysts at Johns Hopkins University, the president explained that he declassified portions of an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate to defend his pre-war claims that [...]

Large numbers of immigrants and supporters assembled in cities across the United States Monday for a National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice , urging lawmakers to make it easier for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to live in the country legally. The demonstrations come in response to the ongoing debate in Congress [...]

Ohio Governor Bob Taft is set to face a second round of disciplinary action for failing to report gifts that he received while in office. The Office of Disciplinary Counsel , part of the Ohio Supreme Court tasked with monitoring lawyer behavior, said Monday that Taft violated the Ohio Code of Professional Responsibility for receiving [...]

Leading Monday's international brief, the European Union Council of Foreign Ministers has voted to suspend economic aid to the Palestinian Authority on the grounds that EU law forbids the funding of terrorist organizations and recently elected political organization Hamas has failed to distance itself from its terrorist roots. The EU has pledged to aid the [...]

Americans reported a record $183 million lost to Internet fraud in 2005, a 169 percent increase from the previous year, according to a new report published by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) . In its 2005 Internet Crime Report , the IC3, a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, [...]