Oil-for-Food is not a program designed merely to deliver food and medicine, neither is it arranged so as to promote the development of a healthy society. It is, in practice, a scaffold for ...

Boston Scientific Inc. (NYSE: BSX) is no stranger to lawsuits, usually from unhappy consumers. But an entire country? The medical device maker, based in Natick, Massachusetts, continues to face a ...

WASHINGTON - A House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday broadened its investigation of Iraq's oil-for-food program to include the Bush administration's handling of the country's oil money. The ...

WASHINGTON AP - Chevron Corp. has agreed to pay $30 million to settle charges that it made illegal kickbacks to Iraq for oil purchased in 2001 and 2002 under the United Nation's oil-for-food ...

UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan ordered disciplinary action against the head of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq on Thursday, after a report sharply criticized Benon Sevan for ...

GENEVA — Companies that bought Iraqi oil from traders who allegedly spent billions of dollars to bribe Saddam Hussein for contracts under the U.N. oil-for-food program now could be implicated in the ...

A senior United Nations (UN) official warned the Security Council on Tuesday its Iraqi sanctions panel was so politically paralyzed that aid workers are finding it difficult to carrying out the ...

GENEVA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The Swiss authorities do not expect investigations into kickbacks to Iraq or racketeering under the U.N. oil-for-food programme to lead to any federal prosecutions, the ...

Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., the Texas oil tycoon who courted presidents and dictators, dabbled in foreign intrigue and went to prison for paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government under the cover ...

With a precarious cease-fire holding, the international community has anointed the United Nations as guardian of peace in Lebanon. Indeed, what other body could be tasked with such a... According to ...