Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews said Wednesday that the Canadian government will review and perhaps appeal an Ontario Superior Court ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a key provision of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act...
Prosecutors in Argentina argued before an Argentinean federal judge Wednesday that he should authorize the arrest of several Iranian officials for their alleged roles the AMIA Jewish cultural center bombing that killed 85 people...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Friday decried any potential action by the UN Security Council to impose sanctions against Iran for continuing to enrich uranium past a August 31 deadline imposed by Security...
Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht won his appeal of an "admonishment" he received in May for allegedly improperly using the power of his office to support the nomination of his friend, Harriet Miers [JURIST...
Members of an Ethiopian inquiry team charged with investigating violent mass demonstrations following the May 2005 elections and separate protests about ballot fraud in November 2005 announced Wednesday that 193 civilians were killed by Ethiopian...
Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet told federal judge Alejandro Solis during a meeting Wednesday that he neither participated in nor was aware of the torture of thousands of citizens at Villa Grimaldi prison [Wikipedia...
The UN Security Council Saturday voted to impose sanctions on North Korea (DPRK) in response to the country's reported underground nuclear test on October 9. The resolution...
Switzerland's top Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner Hanspeter Thür said Friday that Swiss banks violated national secrecy laws when they failed to inform customers using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) international...
British human rights group Reprieve accused the United States in a report issued Friday of using Germany's Ramstein Air Base as a detention center for renditions . Reprieve's sources claim that...
The US Supreme Court announced Friday that it will reconsider the death penalty sentence of LaRoyce Lathair Smith, convicted of murdering a 19-year-old Dallas Taco Bell manager...
