The US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted in favor of issuing contempt of Congress citations against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers [official...
Iranian Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Ejehei said Wednesday that new arrests have been made in the conspiracy cases against Dr. Haleh Esfandiari , director of the Middle East Program at the DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars...
Canada's Federal Court Wednesday ordered the government to publicly release previously censored portions of a report on Maher Arar , a Canadian citizen who was detained in the US in 2002 and...
Carla Del Ponte , the top prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , called on Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to renew efforts to capture war crimes fugitives Ratko Mladic and...
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown told parliament Wednesday in a wide-ranging statement on security and counter-terrorism policy that new rules need to be implemented that allow police more time to question uncharged terror suspects....
A federal judge Tuesday refused to dismiss lawsuits brought by several states seeking more information from the federal government about the administration's domestic surveillance program . In his ruling, Judge Vaughn Walker expressed doubt about...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Rwanda to conduct an "independent and impartial" investigation into an increasing number of alleged extrajudicial killings, saying in a report Tuesday that Rwanda National Police officers have...
Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Mark McClellan said Tuesday that the US Food and Drug Administration is currently unable to handle the responsibility of tobacco regulation. A bill introduced by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) ...
A court in India sentenced three men to death on Tuesday for their involvement in the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257 people and injured more than 700 in India's financial center. The court...
An Orleans Parish grand jury Tuesday refused to indict Dr. Anna Pou on charges of killing four patients at the Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina . Pou and...
