Military prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty for six Guantánamo detainees who are to be charged with central roles in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, government officials who have been briefed on the charges said Sunday.
France´s parliament has voted to adopt the EU reform treaty, three years after a French No dealt a fatal blow to the European Constitution.
The Senate may vote as soon as next week on a bill to reform product safety regulation after months of recalls of shoddy goods, many of them toys made in China, said a key lawmaker and Senate aides on Thursday.
Exxon Mobil Corp has won court orders freezing up to $12 billion in Venezuelan assets around the world as it fights for compensation for operations lost to President Hugo Chavez´s nationalization drive.
Financial leaders from the world´s richest nations showed signs on Friday they were ready to work together to tackle a global economic downturn and calm turbulent financial markets.
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would not allow itself to be drawn into what he called a new arms race.
Moving with uncommon speed, Congress gave final approval on Thursday to a $168 billion economic rescue package, including rebates for taxpayers and tax breaks for businesses, that lawmakers and President Bush hope will set off a rush of springtime spending and spark the slowing economy.
A growing number of leading US law firms are moving to shield European partners and associates from the prolonged slump in the dollar, it has emerged.
By a single vote, Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked an expansive fiscal stimulus package championed by Democrats, as partisan rancor engulfed the effort to inject a quick burst of spending into the slowing economy.
At the time that the Central Intelligence Agency destroyed videotapes of the interrogations of operatives of Al Qaeda, a federal judge was still seeking information from Bush administration lawyers about the interrogation of one of those operatives, Abu Zubaydah, according to court documents made public on Wednesday.
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered an inquiry on Thursday into allegations of government kickbacks in a deal with China´s ZTE Corp, in which her husband´s name has figured.
A Russian court suspended the trial of an ailing former executive of the dismantled oil giant Yukos on Wednesday but refused to release him from jail to be treated for AIDS-related cancer and tuberculosis.
A Spanish judge indicted 40 members of the Rwandan military Wednesday on charges of terrorism and genocide, accusing them of mass killings of civilians after taking power in the wake of the 1994 ethnic slaughter.
Boris Kuznetsov, a lawyer who challenged the Russian security services´ wiretapping of his client, has applied for political asylum in the United States, his Moscow attorney said Tuesday.
President Giorgio Napolitano of Italy dissolved the country’s Parliament on Wednesday, and the cabinet set April 13 as the date for new national elections.
Georgia lost a major court fight in the Southern battle over water rights on Tuesday when a federal appellate-court panel said the state could not withdraw as much water as it had planned from an Atlanta-area reservoir.
Two months after the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case on the rights of the Guantánamo detainees, an unanticipated development has suddenly scrambled the outlook for a straightforward resolution. Cases that have been proceeding on completely separate judicial tracks may be about to converge.
Last spring, Wachovia bank was accused in a lawsuit of allowing fraudulent telemarketers to use the bank’s accounts to steal millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims. When asked about the suit, bank executives said they had been unaware of the thefts.
The last army chief from Argentina´s dictatorship and five other retired officers went on trial Tuesday for their alleged roles in the illegal detentions and torture of dissidents during military rule.
Microsoft said Friday that it would offer $44.6 billion for Yahoo, the ailing search giant. The surprise offer of $31 a share represents a 62 percent premium to Thursday’s clsoing share price. Yahoo shareholders could elect to receive either cash or stock.
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