The UK Labour Party government was accused Thursday of compromising the neutrality of the police force by asking them to support an anti-terrorism provision authorizing the detention of terror suspects without charge for up to 90 days, a proposal...
Peru announced Thursday that it is removing its ambassador from Japan to protest Tokyo's refusal to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori . Fujimori was detained earlier this week in Chile on an international...
French immigrant communities and rights groups are criticizing the French government's decision to impose emergency laws in efforts to restore order after two weeks of rioting. The 1955 state of emergency law was...
US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said Thursday that during his 15 years as a federal court judge, he never knowingly ruled on a case in which he had an obligation to recuse...
The Italian prosecutor's office in Milan has asked for 22 CIA operatives to be extradited to Italy to face charges for the alleged kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar in 2003, according to an Italian prosecutor...
The UN Joint Disciplinary Committee has concluded that the only employee fired during the UN oil-for-food scandal did not violate staff rules and should be reinstated, according to the ruling obtained by the Associated Press Thursday....
Senior White House advisor Karl Rove spoke at the annual meeting of the Federalist Society Thursday to commend President Bush's conservative nominees to the US Supreme Court and denounce judicial activism. This was Rove's first...
UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke is taking the blame for a defeat Wednesday in the UK House of Commons of a key provision of the British government's proposed Terrorism Bill that would...
US Senate Democrats Wednesday launched their first concerted effort to challenge the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court by requesting information regarding a 2002 case he participated in involving mutual...
A military jury Friday cleared a US Army sergeant of all charges related to his alleged abuse of a prisoner at the US-run Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan . Sgt. Duane Grubb had been charged...
