US District Judge Reggie B. Walton has ruled that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will have to turn over documents essential to the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby legal defense team regarding how a...
Chinese Internet journalist Yang Tianshui, a member of China's chapter of International PEN , an association that promotes freedom of speech, faces up to 15 years in jail on charges that he attempted to "subvert state power" by...
American-educated Saudi and alleged al Qaeda suspect Ghassan Abdullah al Sharbi denied before a pre-trial military commission hearing at Guantanamo Bay Thursday that he was guilty of war crimes , but...
Several US states, cities, and environmental groups led by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit Thursday against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US Court of Appeals for...
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 4-3 Thursday that it is constitutional for a judge to require a convicted sex offender to turn over DNA samples to the Canadian National DNA Data Bank , even...
Nepalese security forces fired rubber bullets and live rounds on tens of thousands of pro-democracy protestors in Kathmandu Saturday, injuring many demonstrators as they marched toward the palace of King Gyanendra just...
Shirin Ebadi , the Iranian human rights lawyer and activist who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize , said Friday that Iran would defend itself against any American attack, insisting at a...
The US Department of Justice signed off on a new Georgia law Friday that will require voters to present a valid photo ID when they vote in elections. Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue [official...
The UN human rights chief in Iraq said Friday that officials in that country are holding thousands of detainees in violation of Iraqi law and expressed concern about ongoing human rights violations. According...
Eight thousand pro-democracy protesters assembled in Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu Saturday in the largest demonstration against the rule of King Gyanendra since the current round of protests began over a week...
