Greenhouse gases contribute to air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare, the Environmental Protection Agency finds in a scientific review ordered in 2007 by the Supreme Court.
A three judge panel of the DC Circuit vacated the Bush-era program for leasing of land for oil and gas drilling on the US Outer Continental Shelf along the Alaskan coast.
The Revolutionary Court of Iran convicted US journalist Roxana Saberi of espionage, sentencing her to eight years in prison, in a trial closed to the public.
The New England Journal of Medicine is releasing a new study by the University of London, finding that sectarian militias were responsible for a full third of killings in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.
Human rights and civil liberties groups protested Barack Obama’s announced decision not to investigate individuals who used or authorized “enhanced interrogation techniques” under the Bush administration.
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that former Israeli security chief Avraham Dichter cannot be sued in the US by survivors of a 2002 Israeli bombing that targeted a Hamas leader in Gaza.
The lawyer for the accused gunman on trial for the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks moved to suppress his client’s confession, arguing it was the product of torture.
Security forces raided a huge marijuana plantation in the southern Philippine island province of Sulu, Mindanao region. A military statement linked the militant Abu Sayyaf group to the plantation.
As the US prepares a new initiative to crack down on Somali pirates, going after the pirate bases in Puntland may provide the pretext for putting an end to the region’s hard-won autonomy.
Naxalite guerillas killed 17 in India’s “red corridor” of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa as voters went to the polls in elections for India’s Lok Sabha, or lower house of parliament.
US Army Sgt.John Hatley was convicted of murder and conspiracy in court-martial proceedings for the killing of four unarmed Iraqi prisoners, and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.
Israel will not comply with a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigation into possible war crimes that were committed during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, officials said.
