The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday invoked the Second Amendment to reverse a lower court ruling and strike down a three-decades old ban on individuals in the District of Columbia having handguns in...
Britain's most senior judge assailed recent government sentencing guidelines in a speech Thursday, warning that minimums set in 2003 threatened to eventually fill up the country's prisons with "geriatric lifers" and would have negative consequences for years to...
A US Department of Justice review of the FBI's use of so-called national security letters (NSLs) and ex parte orders for business records criticizes the Bureau for ineffective management, monitoring and reporting of the programs....
UN High Commissioner Louise Arbour marked International Women's Day Thursday with a stark message on violence against women , urging an end to impunity for what was paradoxically the "most common but least...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told senators in a private meeting Thursday that the Bush administration would drop its objection to proposed legislation requiring Senate confirmation of all US Attorneys, reversing a rule change approved a year ago in...
The lower house of the Jordanian parliament approved a bill Sunday that would subject journalists to jail sentences for defaming any religion protected under the country's constitution - i.e. Islam, Christianity or Judaism - or "offending...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Monday denounced a weekend raid by UK-led coalition forces and Iraqi soldiers on the local Basra headquarters building of the National Iraqi Intelligence Agency, ordering an investigation into...
Chief US military commissions prosecutor Col. Morris Davis (USAF) has criticized the conduct of the US military lawyer for Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks , suggesting that Major Michael Mori (USMC) has been playing politics...
The UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights said in a report issued Sunday that so-called control orders issued by the government to limit the movement and conduct of uncharged terror...
Netherlands Minister of Integration Ella Vogelaar told Dutch radio Saturday that she has no plans to implement a ban on the public wearing of the full-length Muslim burqa despite two parliamentary votes...
