The United Nations on Tuesday fired Carina Perelli, head of the UN's Electoral Assistance Division , for alleged employee harassment and management failures. Allegations of sexual harassment and intimidation in Perelli's office were first reported in...
The Bush Administration Thursday asked the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate the US Defense Department's mandatory anthrax vaccination program . The anthrax vaccine is currently labeled for use by individuals who are at high risk...
Lebanese Defense Minister Elias al-Murr announced Thursday that Lebanon will ask the UN Security Council to extend for another six months its investigation into the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri . UN...
Members of the European Parliament on Thursday criticized EU leaders for failing to push the United States on recent reports of a secret network of CIA prisons in Europe used to hold suspected terrorists. British...
The Connecticut General Assembly passed a tough new campaign finance law Thursday that strictly limits campaign contributions for all state offices and creates a public campaign finance system. Once enacted, the bill will ban political...
Observers of the trial of Saddam Hussein warned Tuesday that mounting political pressure threatens the independence and fairness of the Iraqi High Criminal Court trying the ousted Iraqi leader. A Human Rights Watch [official...
A federal court in Maryland has ruled that US law enforcement agents must obtain a warrant before obtaining information from a cell phone service on the location of a cell phone user. In an opinion written by...
Louis Joinet, a UN official assigned to oversee the human rights conditions in Haiti , on Tuesday sharply criticized the Haitian justice system for detaining hundreds of people without charge, including Reverend Gerard Jean-Juste , a...
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Porter Goss Tuesday denied allegations that the CIA engages in torture when interrogating detainees. In an ABC-TV interview , Goss said that the agency's interrogation tactics did "not come close" torture...
The Uzbekistan Supreme Court Tuesday took the remarkable step of issuing a statement defending its recently-concluded trial of 15 individuals accused of leading a May, 2005 uprising in the town of Andijan which led to the 15...
