Toyota Motor Corp. agreed to pay a combined $32.4 million in two settlements with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration related to auto recalls, according to a statement on the carmaker’s website.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned U.S. lawmakers on Monday that any changes to the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty signed by Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev in April could kill the pact.
Transocean Ltd., the owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico in April, must turn over safety records to the U.S. government, a federal judge ruled.
The US Justice Department is exploring a legal pursuit of Julian Assange, said Vice President Joe Biden, who described the WikiLeaks founder as a dangerous "hi-tech terrorist."
The Senate on Saturday struck down the ban on gay men and lesbians serving openly in the military, bringing to a close a 17-year struggle over a policy that forced thousands of Americans from the ranks and caused others to keep secret their sexual orientation.
Sudan´s president said the country would adopt an Islamic constitution if the south split away in a referendum due next month, in a speech on Sunday.
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Canada´s top court has agreed to hear an appeal of an Ontario ruling that confirmed the province as jurisdiction for a libel suit launched by Conrad Black.
The blockbuster insider trading case that shook Silicon Valley and Wall Street on Thursday likely gave Steve Jobs, Apple´s famously secretive CEO, a healthy case of heartburn this morning.
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A Dutch town was right in refusing to let foreigners buy cannabis, Europe´s highest court said in a ruling Thursday that will help the national government´s plans to curb sales of the drug to tourists.
Ireland´s constitutional ban on abortion violates the rights of pregnant women to receive proper medical care in life-threatening cases, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday, harshly criticizing Ireland´s long inaction on the issue.
BP´s shares took a hit this morning, after the US government announced it is suing the oil giant and four other companies over the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the world´s largest offshore oil spill.
France´s Competition Authority said that Google occupies a strongly dominant position in the online advertising market linked to internet searches and that it possibly violated competition law.
A jury has ruled Lorillard Tobacco tried to entice black children to become smokers by giving out free cigarettes and has awarded US$71 million ($94.6 million) to the estate and son of a woman who died of lung cancer.
London´s High Court upheld a decision on Thursday to free on bail WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition to Sweden over rape allegations.
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to overturn the ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers serving in the U.S. military, passing legislation repealing the controversial "don´t ask, don´t tell" policy.
An ex-minister who had responsibility for drugs policy has called for all drugs to be legally available.
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A Moscow court abruptly postponed the verdict in the trial of jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Wednesday, surprising his lawyers and deepening the intrigue over a case that is testing the Kremlin´s will to reform Russia.
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