Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer has signed the controversial anti-terrorism bill which the country's parliament passed on June 29, but says he will allow the country's constitutional court to...
The US House of Representatives Monday approved a bill by voice vote that would make a 2000 treaty between the US and Russia effective to protect the future of the world's polar bears (Ursus maritimus) [backgrounder;...
Antitrust regulators from EU member states voted unanimously Monday to approve in principle new fines against Microsoft for not following a 2004 European Union antitrust ruling . In December...
Eleven African jurists were sworn-in Monday as the first members of Africa's first continent-wide human rights court, the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) , sponsored by the African Union . The swearing-in took...
Lawyers for Guantanamo prisoners seeking to challenge their detentions in the US federal courts argued Monday before the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals that no further filings in their cases were necessary and that enough documentation...
The head of a European inspection team tasked with evaluating the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay said Friday that there may be only 30-40 "real" cases of terrorism there and recommended that the facility be...
Federal prosecutors Friday argued that the homes and other assets owned by former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were obtained by fraud, and petitioned a judge to order the two men to...
The new Human Rights Council of the United Nations voted Friday to review alleged human rights abuses by Israel in all future council sessions, a move which was protested by both...
A spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer Friday criticized the California State Office of Homeland Security for tracking antiwar protests over the past few months, calling it a violation of civil liberties. Reports obtained...
Sen. John Warner (R-VA) said Friday that Congress must be cautious about passing an alternative to military commissions at Guantanamo Bay , which were struck down by the...
