The state of Nevada filed a lawsuit against the federal government Wednesday, seeking documents related to the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump , including documents which allegedly contain information that the proposed site...
Chinese prosecutors are refusing to release a New York Times researcher despite receiving a court order last week dismissing the charges against him, the researcher's lawyer said Tuesday. Zhao Yan has been detained since 2004, accused of...
A Connecticut Superior Court on Tuesday began hearing a lawsuit brought by eight same-sex couples who claim that the state's marriage law is unconstitutional because it treats heterosexual couples differently than same-sex couples by defining marriage as...
Approximately 100 opposition activists in Belarus have been detained for protesting the country's presidential elections over the weekend, which locked in a third term for Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko , a lawyer for...
Danish prosecutors have charged a spokesman of radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir with threatening the government and for breaking anti-racism laws. Hizb ut-Tahrir preaches in favor of a Muslim state across the Middle East...
Sixteen Ugandan men who were arrested and charged with treason along with defeated presidential candidate Kizza Besigye , claim that they were tortured by state security agents while in custody and are suing the Ugandan...
Maj. Michael Mori, the US Marine Corps lawyer representing Australian terror suspect David Hicks in military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay , said Monday that the "imbalanced system" at Guantanamo presents a...
US military investigators are looking into allegations that made by Iraqi police that US troops killed 11 civilians in their home in Ishaqi last week, a military spokesman said Tuesday. US forces said they approached the house to arrest...
The last annual meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva was delayed again Monday as the body waits for a procedural vote by the UN Economic and Social Council [official...
Philippine Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz said Monday that the country's military would not go on a "witch hunt" as it investigates the involvement of army soldiers in last month's failed coup attempt against Philippine President...
