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The British government has indicated it won't handover former military dictator Pervez Musharraf to Pakistan because a "possibility of capital punishment impedes the formulation of an agreement between the two countries", according to a media report Tuesday.

A trial court judge was killed in an ambush Tuesday night in central Philippine province of Negros Occidental, police said on Wednesday.

The U.S. Justice Department says a former engineer for the oil giant BP has been arrested on charges of intentionally destroying evidence related to the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov.

A Sharjah Court that was hearing a case against 17 Indian nationals for their role in the alleged murder of a Pakistani national, has adjourned the civil case till May 7.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over Arizona's controversial state immigration enforcement law.

Delmus Eugene Scott, Jr., 34, of Humble, Texas, has been sentenced to federal prison for theft of government money, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Scott was the former custodian of public effects (COPE), which is the equivalent to a postmaster in the United States.

George P. Hranowskyj, 48, of Chespeake, Virginia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury accused of engaging in a six-year historic tax credit fraud scheme that cost the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Virginia more than $11 million and enriched him and others by approximately $8 million.

Three men were charged today in a criminal complaint for their participation in $15 million fraudulent investment schemes between December 2008 and April 2012. Defendants’ initial appearances are scheduled this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marilyn D. Go in Brooklyn.

A Russian national living in New York has been charged for his alleged role in a ring that stole approximately $1 million by hacking into retail brokerage accounts and executing sham trades, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Paul J. Fishman announced today.