An 80-year-old man reputed to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan will stand trial starting Monday for the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers. Edgar Ray Killen is charged with...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague Wednesday dismissed two charges against former Bosnian commander Naser Oric . The court ruled that charges that Oric's soldiers...
A leading Sunni Muslim group in Iraq announced Wednesday that it would not participate in writing the new Iraqi constitution unless Sunnis were given a fair number of seats on the drafting committee. The parliamentary committee in charge [JURIST...
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has upheld the drug conviction of a passenger found with cocaine during an airport security check. Sergio Ramon Marquez was randomly selected from a line...
Palestinian detainees at Israel's Megiddo prison began a hunger strike on Wednesday as Israeli officials denied reports that prison guards there had abused the Koran, echoing similar stories from Guantanamo Bay . Prisoners complained that...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari Wednesday promised to continue fighting corruption in Iraq's new government. He said "administrative corruption" was one of many challenges Iraq must face, and that the government has "rolled up its sleeves and...
The US House Appropriations Committee Tuesday continued to press the FBI to adopt recommended reforms in hearings on the the FBI's new budget . On Monday, members of the 9/11 Commission also expressed concern [CBS...
After rejecting the proposed European Constitution , a poll of French citizens released Wednesday says 61 percent want the constitution renegotiated, while 35 percent say it should not be changed. 74 percent believed France could...
Fifteen Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing in March by Combatant Status Review Tribunals that concluded they were not properly classed as "enemy combatants" are still being held at the facility...
A father and son have been arrested and charged with lying to federal agents after the son admitted to attending an al-Qaida training camp in Pakistan, the FBI said on Tuesday. Hamid Hayat, 22, is charged with...
