The US Senate on has rejected a proposal to create an independent commission patterned after the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate US treatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. With a 55-43 party-line...
A classified Central Intelligence Agency report issued in 2004 questioned whether certain interrogation tactics approved by the agency for use against terrorism suspects would violate the UN Convention Against Torture , current and former intelligence officials have...
Azerbaijan officials have agreed to allow Soviet-era passports to be used as identification for upcoming elections in an attempt to avoid controversy over a headscarf ban for new ID photo cards. The government announced the change in policy after...
US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has outlined plans to increase security along US borders by hiring more federal agents, constructing additional fences and ending policies that allow illegal immigrants to be released in the US. Chertoff...
Saudi Arabia King Abdullah has urged President Bush to release Saddam Hussein's half-brother from detention because of failing health, Saudi Arabia daily Al-Riyadh reported Wednesday. King Abdullah reportedly sent a letter to Bush asking...
The interim government in Haiti has sued former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in US federal court for his alleged embezzlement of millions of dollars from the country's treasury and a state-owned telephone company. The suit,...
The US has circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution that would extend the UN mandate of the 180,000-strong multinational force currently in Iraq for another year. The US-led force was originally...
An advisory group created by the Scottish Consumer Council has called for reforms to the country's civil law system that would make the system less costly and more efficient. Scotland's civil law system deals...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Lockhart v. US , a case in which it will decide whether the US government can use part of...
Only days after President Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito to a seat on the US Supreme Court , the group of 14 senators who helped diffuse a Senate showdown over judicial nominees showed signs of...
