Detainees held in secret prisons operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) throughout the globe were subject to abuse and sleep deprivation, according to a confidential report prepared by the International Committee of the Red Cross...
Pakistani Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is accused of misusing his influence to get his son jobs and promotions, according to details released for the first time Wednesday. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf suspended ...
US Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) Stuart Bowen told the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that investigators will be employing stricter standards when dealing with companies performing contract work in Iraq that engage in...
US Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine told the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing on Tuesday that the confusion and abuses surrounding the use of National...
Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr said in an interview published Monday that he will be unable to identify the alleged CIA kidnappers who he says abducted him from Italy in...
The US Senate voted Tuesday to limit the power of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to name interim US attorneys, passing the Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007 by a...
State Farm Insurance will accelerate settlement payouts to Mississippi Gulf Coast residents whose homes were affected by Hurricane Katrina , according to Mississippi Insurance Commissioner George Dale Monday. Dale told Reuters that after...
The US Department of Defense reported Monday that Guantanamo detainee Walid Muhammad Salih bin Attash admitted to collaborating on the 1998 bombing of the US embassy in Kenya and the 2000 bombing of the USS...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Morse v. Frederick , 06-278 , where the court must decide whether a student's First Amendment rights...
A Turkish prosecutor officially filed charges against political science professor Atilla Yayla Tuesday for "insulting the legacy" of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the founder of modern Turkey. The professor is being prosecuted for a November 18 speech,...
