Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday that he is considering granting clemency to former President Pasteur Bizimungu , who is serving a 15-year prison sentence for inciting violence, embezzlement, and associating with criminals after he left office in 2000. Bizimungu had appealed his conviction to the Rwandan Supreme Court, but the court rejected Bizimungu's arguments [...]

Testimony ended Monday in the trial of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling as the defense team rested their case and the prosecution called only three rebuttal witnesses. Lay and Skilling are charged with multiple counts of fraud and criminal conspiracy for providing investors with false and misleading financial information from 1999 up [...]

A court in the Philippines has dismissed charges against five lawmakers who were accused of taking part in a coup conspiracy to overthrow the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo . The five members of the Philippines House of Representatives had taken refuge in the Congress building since the end of February in order to avoid [...]

The Constitutional Court of Thailand on Monday invalidated the results of the country's April 2 parliamentary elections , ruling that the "organization of the election by the Election Commission was unconstitutional," because the poll was held too soon after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra dismissed parliament, preventing candidates from having sufficient time to prepare for elections. [...]

Nepal's parliamentarians have said they may impeach Nepal's Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Poudel, accusing him of failing to maintaining independence of the judiciary during the 15-month long autocratic rule of King Gyanendra , who gave up control of the government after pro-democracy protests last month. The "Chief Justice should either resign or face impeachment," leftist [...]

A South African court on Monday acquitted former Deputy President Jacob Zuma on rape charges, finding that testimony from Zuma's accuser was not credible and that her allegations were false. Zuma had denied the charges , as well as separate corruption charges , saying that they were part of a conspiracy to discredit him politically [...]

President George W. Bush has nominated Gen. Michael V. Hayden , to replace Porter Goss , who resigned unexpectedly Friday. Hayden currently serves as the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence and several members of Congress have already come out against the nomination , saying that it is inappropriate for a military general to head [...]

The UK High Court ruled Monday that Apple Computer did not breach a 1991 trademark agreement with Apple Corps , the record label owned by the Beatles and their families, when the computer company began promoting music products. The Beatles sued the computer company , arguing that the online iTunes music store violated the agreement, [...]

Leading Monday's international brief, a Sudanese government official has denied reports that Sudan would accept UN peacekeepers in the Darfur region as inaccurate and unfounded. Sudan has continually rejected all attempts to deploy UN peacekeepers, saying that they feared Western imperialism and would allow only African Union peacekeepers. Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jamal Muhammad Ibrahim [...]

Lawyers for five Kuwaitis formerly detained at Guantanamo told a Kuwait criminal court Sunday that the Kuwaiti courts lack any foundation for convicting their clients of having links with al Qaeda . Their lawyers questioned the court’s jurisdiction over persons accused of committing crimes abroad and the legitimacy of evidence collected by US interrogators at [...]