British Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced Tuesday that three British men, all Greenwich Natwest bankers, will be extradited to the US to face trial for their involvment in the Enron scandal. Clarke is upholding a London court's ruling from October . The bankers face trial in the US on fraud charges for pocketing 1.5 million [...]

Human Rights Watch accused the US Tuesday of allowing two US citizens of Pakistani descent to be tortured and abused while being held in Pakistan as suspected al Qaeda members. Brothers Kashan and Zain Afzal were detained in Pakistan for eight months, during which they both claim they were tortured and questioned by FBI agents [...]

The High Court in Spain on Tuesday freed on bail 9/11 suspect Ghasoub al Abrash Ghalyoun. A real estate developer in Spain, Ghalyoun is accused of taking amateur video while on vacation in the US and providing it to members of al Qaeda to aid in the 9/11 terrorist attacks . Some legal analysts believe [...]

Three women Russian judges are nearly halfway through Mikhail Khodorkovsky's verdict document Tuesday after seven days of reading. The verdict-reading has presented evidence that will most likely result in a conviction for Khodorkovsky, the former CEO of Russia's largest oil firm, Yukos , as well as one time richest man in Russia. Khodorkovsky faces charges [...]

A judge in Italy on Tuesday ordered that trained explosives expert Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed face trial in Milan on charges separate from the Madrid attack. Investigators have accused Ahmed, whose trial is expected to begin on October 8 2005, of preparing terrorist attacks in Italy and elsewhere in Europe when he was arrested last [...]

New Jersey police said Tuesday that they were only in the initial stages of an investigation that has so far revealed data theft from over 700,000 account holders from four major banks in the US. Ten arrests have been made in the scam affecting Bank of America , Wachovia , Commerce Bancorp official website], and [...]

FBI lawyers speaking in front of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday asked for sweeping new powers to seize records from private citizens and businesses in terrorism investigations without first obtaining a judge's approval. The FBI seeks the power to issue administrative subpoenas to get information quickly about impending terrorist threats and [...]

Supporters of the International Court of Justice and international law have been mildly encouraged by showings of at least mild deference to the ICJ by most members of the US Supreme Court Court in its closely watched Medellin ruling on Monday. In Medellin, the Court dismissed the case after the International Court of Justice had [...]

Lawyers for Pfc. Lynndie England on Tuesday decided to forgo her right to challenge the seven charges she faces for her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal . England defense attorney Capt. Jonathon Crisp did not elaborate on why he decided not to go forward with the Article 32 hearing , the military equivalent [...]

Six Pitcairn Island men, found guilty of multiple sexual abuse charges in October 2004 , have lost their appeal in the Pitcairn Supreme Court sitting in Auckland, New Zealand. The Court denied all of the defense's arguments, including a claim that British law did not apply to the descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers who [...]