U.S. Drops Criminal Inquiry of C.I.A. Antidrug Effort in Peru
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Officials said it was the most serious inquiry to focus on the official conduct of C.I.A. officers since the Iran-contra affair.
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Prosecutors rested after announcing they were dropping one money-laundering count against him.
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The United Nations has called off an internal inquiry into the discovery of a secret listening device at its European headquarters in Geneva without finding out who planted the bug or when.
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MOSCOW -- A Russian nonprofit organization funded by the U.S. government to train journalists and improve management at local television stations has been shuttered by a criminal investigation that critics charge is politically motivated.
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The Justice Department is investigating the Chiron Corporation, whose British factory was shut down, cutting in half the supply of flu shots in the United States this winter.
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The Bush administration plans to cut  U.S. counternarcotics funding for Peru because it does not  expect a program to shoot down suspected drug flights to resume  anytime soon, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
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The Justice Department yesterday confirmed that it has dropped a criminal investigation to determine whether CIA officials lied about circumstances surrounding the shooting down of a small plane carrying American missionaries.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The military yesterday dropped an espionage charge against a Muslim interpreter accused of spying at the camp for terrorism detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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WASHINGTON Nov 11, 2004 - A planned government study into how children&#39;s bodies absorb pesticides and other chemicals has been temporarily suspended due to ethical concerns.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  - The U.S. military  dropped spy charges against a Syrian-American airman who worked  as a translator at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay,  Cuba, on Wednesday after he agreed to plead guilty to several  lesser charges, officials said.
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Prosecutors on Thursday dropped their investigation of three German soldiers who posed for photos with a skull they found in Afghanistan.Comment
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Venezuela accused U.S. anti-drug agents Friday of collaborating with traffickers and rejected Washington's allegations that rampant corruption has allowed illegal drug smuggling to thrive in the South American country.
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Panama on Friday withdrew stocks of a medicine used by thousands to treat high blood pressure after investigations linked it to a mystery illness that has killed 19 people.
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South African authorities on Wednesday abruptly dropped criminal charges against a Pretoria man charged last week with possessing components for the construction of nuclear weapons.
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The pharmaceutical's settlement ends a government probe.
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Charges were dropped Monday against a woman arrested last week after she entered a restaurant where Vice President Dick Cheney was appearing at a private campaign event.
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An Italian court dropped on Thursday a murder trial against a U.S. soldier who killed an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq on the grounds it did not have jurisdiction, removing a thorn from relations between Rome and Washington.