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Hundreds of lawyers across Pakistan have gone on strike following the dispute between President Asif Ali Zardari and the Supreme Court.

Japan’s government may press criminal charges against an anti-whaling activist after he boarded a Japanese vessel in Antarctic waters yesterday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said.

ISLAMABAD—Political tension heightened in Pakistan after the Supreme Court struck down the appointment of two senior judges by the president.

Western Union has agreed to a $94 million settlement Thursday in disputes with Arizona prosecutors that center on the state's effort to reduce the flow of immigrant and drug smuggling money through wire transfers.

The White House has expressed "deep disappointment" at a UK court ruling that information on the alleged torture of a UK resident had to be disclosed.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- International war crimes judges dismissed the case against a Sudanese rebel leader Monday, ruling that prosecutors failed to provide enough evidence to put him on trial for the deaths of international peacekeepers.

SYDNEY — Australia on Monday axed 20,000 migrant applications in a major overhaul aimed at clamping down on foreign students gaining permanent residency through courses such as hairdressing and cookery.

The number of foreign students given visas is to be slashed in an attempt to clamp down on widespread abuse of the system.

NEW YORK — President Barack Obama's aunt, an illegal immigrant who has cared for his siblings, will fight in federal immigration court Thursday to avoid deportation, the Boston Herald reported.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday rebuffed criticism that intelligence was lost by giving a lawyer and other legal rights to the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner.