UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour announced Friday that she intends to send an official observer to the Uzbekistan trial of protestors accused of plotting a rebellion during the spring Andijan uprising [HRW...
The White House Friday threatened to veto a $440.2 billion defense spending bill if the Senate amended it to establish a national commission on detainee operations or include provisions regulating the detention, treatment, or trial of terrorists. In an...
Government officials in the United Kingdom are rethinking plans to enact a new law that would criminalize the act of "glorifying terrorism." In an interview Thursday with BBC's Today program, Prime Minister...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will soon issue arrest warrants for leaders of the Uganda rebel group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) , according to statements from a UN official Thursday. The LRA leaders, who have taken...
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday followed through on his promise to veto the gay marriage bill passed by the California Assembly earlier this month. In a veto statement issued late Thursday...
Trial preparations commenced Thursday in federal court in Houston for the first federal civil trial involving the Merck-manufactured Vioxx painkiller. Earlier this month, New Orleans-based US District Judge Eldon Fallon, charged with managing the hundreds of...
The White House said Thursday that President Bush will probably wait until next week to announce his next nominee to the US Supreme Court. Bush was earlier expected to announce his nominee to replace retiring Justice Sandra...
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled unanimously Thursday that provincial governments can pass laws to recover health care costs incurred in taking care of people sickened by smoking. Canadian tobacco companies had challenged the constitutionality of...
The US House of Representatives Thursday approved by 229-193 legislation that would overhaul the 1973 Endangered Species Act . Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) steered the Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005 (TESRA) ...
The New Orleans police department Thursday launched an investigation into police officers' alleged participation in looting that occurred in the wake of Hurricane Katrina . News reports filed in the wake of the hurricane placed some officers...
