The Pakistan National Assembly Sunday passed a bill which not only approved the country's 2008-2009 budget, but also expanded the membership of the country's Supreme Court from 16 to 29 justices. Passage of the so-called...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Monday ordered the US government to release or transfer a Chinese Uighur Muslim detained at Guantanamo Bay, ruling that Huzaifa Parhat...
The Bolivian province of Tarija approved a referendum Sunday calling for greater autonomy, becoming the fourth of nine provinces to approve increased freedom from Bolivia's socialist government. The voting results in...
A US military court in Iraq Sunday convicted Alaa "Alex" Mohammad Ali , an Iraqi-Canadian translator working in the country, in connection with the February stabbing death of a fellow military contractor. The case is the first...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Friday dismissed a petition brought by US terrorism detainee Omar Khadr , who sought review of his unlawful enemy combatant...
China has released more than 1,000 protesters detained by authorities during March demonstrations in Tibet Friday, according to comments attributed to a Chinese official by state press agency Xinhua. Speaking at a press conference on the Olympic...
The European Council agreed at a Friday meeting of government leaders in Brussels to reconvene in October to discuss the future of the Treaty of Lisbon . Last week, Irish voters...
A German court convicted an Iraqi man for disseminating terrorist materials online in an attempt to recruit members for al-Qaeda on Thursday. The man, Ibrahim Rashid, an Iraqi political refugee of Kurdish descent, was convicted on...
Chief Justice Royce Lamberth of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held an off-the-record meeting Wednesday with defense lawyers for enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay to discuss court...
The Vestre Landsret , one of the two second-highest appeals courts in Denmark, denied Wednesday an appeal of a 2006 lower court judgment dismissing a lawsuit concerning caricatures of the...
