Search Results for: 2008-08-04

The Supreme Court of Taiwan Thursday upheld a December 2007 ruling by the Taiwan High Court acquitting Taiwanese President-elect Ma Ying-jeou on graft charges. Prosecutors had filed an appeal ...

Former White House advisor Karl Rove was allegedly involved in a 2004 scheme to have Chicago-based US Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald fired, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday. According to the prosecutor, a witness at the...

Ali Hassan al-Majid , better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," has been released from the hospital and returned to a US detention facility in Baghdad, US military officials said Tuesday. Al-Majid was...

European Commission ministers Friday agreed on implementation of a new counter-terrorism package, including a proposal to amend the Framework Decision on combating terrorism to criminalize recruitment and training for terrorism, particularly when committed...

Former Russian Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeny Adamov was released from prison Thursday after a Moscow City Court suspended his sentence. Adamov was convicted on charges of fraud and abuse of office in...

A lawyer for Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia , sentenced in early April to over three years in prison on charges of inciting subversion of state power , said Thursday...

Two videotapes showing CIA officers interrogating al Qaeda suspects are likely not related to a federal case filed by a Guantanamo Bay detainee and thus not covered by a court order entered in that case directing the CIA to...

A judge in Zimbabwe on Wednesday cleared two foreign journalists of charges of reporting on the country's March 29 presidential election without obtaining proper credentials. Barry Bearak of the New York Times and Stephen Bevan of Britain's...

A federal judge on Monday sentenced Samuel Israel, III, co-founder of collapsed hedge fund Bayou Group , to 20 years in prison. US District Judge Colleen McMahon also ordered Israel to make $300 million in restitution and forfeit...

Turkey must speed up political and social reforms to meet the criteria for accession into the European Union , European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a speech before the Turkish parliament...