Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday released a list of 26 "ghost detainees" , terror suspects that HRW alleges the US has not reported but is holding incommunicado and is possibly torturing. Many of the people on...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Wednesday bowed to pressure from back-benchers and agreed to several amendments to proposed anti-terror legislation that will soften several of its provisions. After a day of...
The UN Security Council on Wednesday delayed a US attempt to bring Myanmar before the council over what the US described as a deteriorating political and human rights situation. US Ambassador John Bolton ...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday said that the country's constitution should be amended to allow the country to increase its military for national security purposes. Koizumi said that the country could not defend itself without...
US Lieutenant-General Martin Dempsey said Wednesday that he thought Iraqi commanders were responsible for recent cases of detainee torture by Iraqi security forces. Dempsey, who oversees the US program to train security forces in Iraq [JURIST news...
Former Hollinger International Inc. executives Jack Boultbee and Peter Atkinson failed to appear on Wednesday at the federal court in Chicago to be arraigned on fraud charges. Both Boultbee, who is charged with eight counts of fraud,...
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has promised to continue a state challenge to funding under the federal No Child Left Behind Act despite the dismissal of separate...
Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Wednesday filed a legal challenge to a report issued by Justice John Gomery in a federal investigation into a sponsorship program that found Chretien responsible...
While serving as an assistant to the solicitor general during the Reagan administration, US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito advocated a gradual challenge to the fringes of Roe v. Wade, rather than an all-out...
The US Commerce Department said on Tuesday that it will comply with a NAFTA ruling to reduce duties it placed on softwood lumber from Canada although emphasizing its disagreement with the ruling. According to...
