Only a few days after large foreign firms in Brazil received some troublesome news about their ability to operate in the country, many of those same firms got another dose of bad news, this time about their aspirations to gain a foothold in India.
Opposition candidate Jose Serra has urged Brazilian voters to back him on Sunday and take the presidential election into a second round.
A foreclosure firm that was scolded and fined for unprofessional conduct by a Manatee County circuit judge last month has fired back, saying the judge is prejudiced against them and broke the rules herself.
Nearly every EU nation is in violation of the Stability and Growth Pact that limits national debt. In order for countries to get debt under control, the European Commission has proposed penalties for debt violators.
A leading tobacco company has lost a legal fight to stop Scottish Parliament legislation banning the display of tobacco products in shops.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has put into writing a proposal he first discussed publicly in June: allowing a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice to hear a case when a sitting justice has recused.
For many years, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must have thought he was one of the unluckiest politicians ever.
Simmering anger over government budget cuts will spill into the streets of 14 European countries Wednesday as tens of thousands workers fight state efforts to slash public debt.
Lawyers advising Liberty say that making spouses pass English language tests to enter the UK could be discriminatory.
Australia is on the verge of enacting a law that would allow journalists to protect the confidentiality of their sources.
Schwarzenegger signs 21 bills, including one allowing the state to parole comatose and physically incapacitated inmates and another restricting motorcycle modifications. He vetoes 14 bills.
Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has kept his promise to introduce legislation to parliament allowing the NT and the ACT to make laws around voluntary euthanasia.
The French parliament has begun debating a bill that would strip naturalized citizens of their nationality for committing certain crimes.
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked what would have been California´s first execution in nearly five years.
The European Commission is to launch legal proceedings against France over its expulsion of Romanian and Bulgarian Roma (Gypsy) migrants.
Brazil has come a long way. Just a few years ago, if a former member of an armed guerrilla band was about to become president of Latin America´s biggest democracy, there would have been a run on Valium. But with all opinion polls touting Workers´ Party candidate Dilma Rousseff for a landslide victory in the Oct. 3 elections, an uncanny serenity has settled over the hemisphere´s biggest emerging nation, and it has nothing to do with controlled substances.
A magistrate was removed from office after he fell asleep on the bench, causing an assault trial to collapse, the office for judicial complaints said.
A "criminal error" characteristic of "manslaughter" helped cause the crash of an Air France flight between Paris and Rio de Janeiro in June 2009, a French court has ruled, paving the way for a first compensation claim.
Everyone has been thinking it, but Guido Mantega, the Brazilian finance minister, has been one of the few policymakers publicly to admit it.
Brazilians seem eager to put a clown in Congress, according to the polls. But the courts are taking a less jovial look at a new report that the comic doesn´t meet a legal requirement that lawmakers be able to read and write.
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