Pakistani officials Saturday announced the re-capture of high-level Taliban operative Ustad Mohammed Yasir in the northern city of Peshawar near the Afghan border. Yasir served as senior aide and spokesman to Taliban leader Mullah Omar . He was...
South Korea's minority Democratic Party filed a criminal suit Sunday after Assembly Speaker Kim Hyong-o on Saturday ordered security guards to end a sit-in by the minority party, which led to dozens of...
The Iraqi parliament Saturday voted down a status of forces draft law which would have permitted 6,000 troops from the United Kingdom, Australia, Romania, El Salvador, and Estonia to remain in the country after the current UN...
Iraqi judge Dhia Al Kinani Friday announced an investigation into the alleged beating of Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi. Al-Zaidi was allegedly beaten after throwing his shoes at US President George W. Bush on December 14 during a...
California Attorney General Edmund Brown Jr. on Friday urged the Supreme Court of California to declare Proposition 8 unconstitutional . In a brief submitted to the court, Brown argued that...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said Friday it will discontinue its controversial policy of suing suspected file-sharers and will instead seek cooperation with major Internet service providers (ISPs) to cut access to...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Thursday ruled on six Chechnya disappearance cases , ordering Russia to pay a total of 320,000 to the relatives of the victims. In each case, the applicants, all Russian...
Lawyers for former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre filed a complaint with the court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in October to prevent his trial for crimes against humanity...
A federal judge on Wednesday re-issued a 22-year prison sentence for so-called "millennium bomber" Ahmed Ressam . Judge John Coughenour of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington first sentenced Ressam to 22...
Members of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have killed Palestinian terror suspects in defiance of a 2006 Israeli Supreme Court ruling on targeted killings, according to Haaretz Wednesday. The 2006 ruling set up...
