Omri Sharon , the son of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and member of the Israeli Knesset, pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegal fundraising activities related to his father's reelection campaign . In exchange for his admission to falsifying corporate documents, perjury and violating the party funding law, Sharon avoided more serious charges of fraud and [...]

Spanish Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso announced Tuesday that the country would investigate allegations that US CIA planes carrying terrorism suspects made secret landings on Spanish soil before continuing to Libya, Algeria, Romania, Macedonia and Sweden. Spain's Defense Minister Jose Bono said that the country had no evidence of the flights and denied that the [...]

Two of eight former Iraqi detainees who are suing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told ABC News Monday they were tortured while in US custody. The torture included beatings, electrocution with tazers, food and water deprivation, being shot with rubber bullets, and threatened with sodomy. One detainee who was housed at the former Republican Palace [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the US Department of State made statements Monday condemning the non-appealable conviction of fifteen Uzbek men who were sentenced to 14-20 years in prison for their involvement in the bloody uprisings in Andijan in May . State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said, "These convictions are based on [...]

Former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic requested a recess in his war crimes trial Tuesday, to allow him time to recover from the strain of defending himself. Milosevic submitted a report from his doctors to the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , recommending "a suspension of physical and mental activities for a minimum [...]

The South Jakarta District Court Tuesday dropped a case brought by the Indonesian Ministry of Environment against the Newmont Mining Corporation , the Indonesian subsidiary of a Denver-based company, saying the case should be settled through international arbitration or conciliation. The Indonesian government, which still may appeal the case, filed the $133.4 million civil suit [...]

Eight advocacy groups Monday filed a complaint in US district court on behalf of the 6.4 million people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid to make sure that no elderly or disabled Americans lose access to prescription drugs when they enroll in the new Medicare drug plan. US Health and Human Services Secretary Mike [...]

Leading Tuesday's international brief, three judges from the Kenyan Constitutional Court ruled that a legal challenge to the legitimacy of the upcoming Kenyan national referendum on the proposed draft constitution was invalid and that neither the legislative nor judicial branches of government could stop the referendum. Activists from the Kenyan Yellow Movement had challenged the [...]

The Libyan Supreme Court Tuesday postponed its verdict until January 31 for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who had received death sentences following their convictions for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with the HIV virus as part of an experiment to find a cure for AIDS. The medics appealed their death sentence [...]

Major US media organization Dow Jones & Co. , publisher of the Wall Street Journal and other publications, on Monday challenged efforts by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to keep documents secret in the CIA leak case , asking a federal court to deny Fitzgerald's motion to bar public disclosure of documents. The proposed protective order [...]