Four former senior Kenyan government officials and a top businessman are to be charged with corruption for their roles in a $1 billion scam known as the Goldenberg affair . The graft charges will be the first laid by the administration of President Mwai Kibaki , who was elected to office in 2002 due largely [...]

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday proposed a record $3.6 million fine against CBS, its stations and affiliates for violating decency standards by airing a graphic sex scene in the program "Without a Trace." The recommendation comes as the FCC resolved over 300,000 complaints about close to 50 television programs on multiple networks aired between [...]

Zimbabwe prosecutors have dropped charges against six men accused of a plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe , according to lawyers involved in the case speaking Wednesday. Media reports originally indicated that eight men had been charged, but police said Wednesday the number was only seven, and that only one, a policeman and former Rhodesian [...]

A panel of judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday convicted former Bosnian Muslim General Enver Hadzihasanovic and former Brigadier Amir Kubura for their failure to check or punish war atrocities committed against Bosnian Croat and Serb civilians by troops under their command during the Bosnian war from 1992-1995 . [...]

New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer Wednesday launched a $250 million lawsuit against H&R Block , the largest tax preparation service in the US, for fraudulently coaxing its customers into a retirement account plan that lost them money. Spitzer said that money in the retirement accounts decreased over time because the low interest rate did [...]

British police arrested five men on Wednesday for their suspected role in protests staged outside the Danish embassy in London on February 3 and 4 against the publication of Muhammad cartoons that first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September 2005. The arrests follow weeks of investigation by a special law enforcement team set up [...]

A lawyer for Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith, a medical officer in the UK's Royal Air Force , argued in a pre-trial military hearing Wednesday that his client was entitled to say in a court-martial defense against five charges of failing to comply with an order to serve in Iraq that the Iraq war was illegal. [...]

AP is reporting that the UN General Assembly has approved a resolution creating a new Human Rights Council by a 170-4 vote, despite US opposition. The new rights body will replace the widely criticized Commission on Human Rights . General Assembly President Jan Eliasson's proposal reflected months of negotiations between UN member countries, but the [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) monitored gatherings organized by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Justice , an anti-war activist organization based in Pittsburgh, according to documents released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) . The ACLU contends that the FBI based its investigation solely on the organization's political views, particularly [...]

In an unpublicized 18-page document circulated last year by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley , the Bush administration altered the Adjudicative Guidelines for Determining Eligibility for Access to Classified Information , making changes which could allow the federal government to use sexual orientation as a factor in denying clearances to applicants. Under the old version [...]