TRIPOLI, Libya, March 2 (UPI) --
An International Criminal Court prosecutor said Wednesday an investigation of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi for possible crimes against humanity is in order.
ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he will present an overview Thursday in The Hague, Netherlands, of the alleged crimes committed by Gadhafi since Feb. 15, in which more than 1,000 people have been reported killed, U.N. News reported. ICC judges will decide whether to issue arrest warrants after hearing Moreno-Ocampo's evidence.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., March 3 (UPI) -- Forecasters are predicting a severe spring 2011 U.S. weather season, including the spreading of severe drought, a high wildfire danger and threats of flooding.
WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- A bill ending U.S. agency regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions puts lawmakers in charge of climate-change policy, "not EPA bureaucrats," a GOP senator said.
WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- U.S. anti-drug agencies are dysfunctional and trying to outdo each other, said Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who meets with President Obama Thursday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 3 (UPI) -- Ohio's GOP-controlled House will likely make the state the first to strip public employees' collective-bargaining rights, labor and legislative officials said.
WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- A no-fly zone and other military options in Libya are doable, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, while criticizing what he called loose talk on the matter.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, March 3 (UPI) -- Bangladesh's Nobel Peace Prize winning economist Muhammad Yunus Thursday filed a legal challenge against the central bank for firing him from his bank post.
WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- Only a small fraction of U.S. aid to Pakistan approved in 2010 has been spent during the current fiscal year, government records indicate.
BOSTON, March 3 (UPI) -- The Federal Highway Administration says many Boston billboards, including some the mass transit agency uses to try to balance its budget, appear to be illegal.
DETROIT, March 3 (UPI) -- A former Michigan narcotics prosecutor faces six months in jail after pleading guilty to misconduct in office.
MORGANTON, N.C., March 3 (UPI) -- A North Carolina woman's home doubled as a daycare center and methamphetamine lab, investigators say.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 3 (UPI) -- A Rhode Island obstetrician has offered to put up his house to guarantee bail for his older brother, who prosecutors say is a retired mob boss.
NEW YORK, March 3 (UPI) -- A New Jersey factory worker was able to board a plane bound for the Dominican Republic with three box cutters in his carryon bag, authorities say.
WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc. was sentenced Wednesday to pay a $150 million fine to the U.S. government and forfeit $14 million in assets, prosecutors said.
BEIJING, March 3 (UPI) -- Chinese people, despite their government's efforts, don't seem happy, as only 6 percent in a Chinese survey included themselves in that category.
BERLIN, March 3 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel named Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere her new defense minister Wednesday, replacing Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg.
