Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court ruled Monday that a military trial of forty top members of the Muslim Brotherhood can go forward. The trial is scheduled to resume on June 3. The holding reverses last week's...
US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff met with the European Parliament Civil Liberties Committee Monday in his latest bid to convince the EU to allow the transfer of...
The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida heard opening statements Monday in the federal trial of US citizen and alleged al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla . The government told jurors that...
The Connecticut Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in the case of eight gay couples who are unhappy with Connecticut's civil unions law and are seeking full marriage rights. Gay & Lesbian Advocates and...
Approximately 1.5 million people descended upon Izmir, Turkey Sunday to demonstrate against the Islamist-rooted government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan , expressing their commitment to the concept of a secular republic. The...
The Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday that it will no longer allow news photographers or cameramen at the scenes of bomb attacks. Brigadier General Abdel-Karim Khalaf, head of the ministry's national operations center, told AFP that...
The US House of Representatives voted Friday to provide shareholders with an advisory vote on executive compensation , noting that in the last 15 years, compensation of Fortune 500 CEOs has moved from 140 times...
Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont announced Friday that the Thai government may grant amnesty to Islamic insurgents, but that it still supports Buddhists who have armed themselves for protection. Surayud,...
The government of Japan said Friday in two statements that it accepted the 1948 rulings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that found Japanese soldiers had...
The US House of Representatives passed the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act (HR 1905) Thursday, which could increase official House membership for the first time since 1960. The bill, which passed 241-177 [roll...
