The UN Security Council Tuesday called for a "prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation" into a weekend raid by Israeli commandos on an aid flotilla bound for the blockaded Gaza strip in which 10 civilians...
The Lahore High Court (LHC) Monday ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to restore access to the Facebook social networking website. The LHC had blocked access to the website earlier this month, in...
Rwandan police on Friday arrested American lawyer Peter Erlinder in Kigali on charges that he denied the 1994 Rwandan genocide . Erlinder, a defense lawyer at the International Criminal Tribunal...
The US Supreme Court on Friday denied a request by former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to delay the start of his corruption trial by 30 days. Blagojevich had sought to postpone the start of...
US President Barack Obama Friday nominated former Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer James Cole for the position of Deputy Attorney General, the second highest position at the DOJ. Cole previously spent 13 years at the...
The US House Armed Services Committee has approved a bill prohibiting the Obama administration from modifying or building a facility in the US to hold detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay . The National Defense...
Seven Icelandic government officials acted with gross negligence in their management of the country's financial system prior to a 2008 bank collapse, according to a report released Monday by a parliamentary panel. The Special Investigation Committee...
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in two cases. In County of Los Angeles v. Humphries , the court will be asked to address whether a...
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal brought by former Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega challenging a lower court ruling denying his...
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in McDaniel v. Brown that a federal district court may not consider non-record evidence when conducting a sufficiency review of...
