Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament, on Monday demanded that restrictions be placed on foreign forces to avoid further civilian casualties before recessing in protest of recent air strikes. Wolesi Jirga secretary Abdul...
The Swedish Sami Association (SSR) on Monday brought a lawsuit against the Swedish government claiming that the state is violating the hunting rights [application summary, PDF,...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that it is reversing Bush administration antitrust policies that made it difficult to act against large companies that harm the interests of smaller companies. In a speech...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Saturday harshly criticized the Obama administration's reported consideration of reviving the military commissions system to try Guantanamo Bay detainees . ACLU Executive Director Anthony...
The FBI has failed to maintain an accurate and effective terrorist watchlist by failing to include known terrorism suspects and to remove records of people that have been cleared, according to a report ...
A US military contractor who pleaded guilty in February to voluntary manslaughter for the 2008 shooting of an Afghan detainee was sentenced in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ...
The US Department of the Interior (DOI) will maintain a controversial Bush-era rule that limits how polar bears are protected from global warming , Secretary of the Interior Ken...
US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens on Thursday denied an application for stay of deportation filed by accused Nazi prison guard John Demjanjuk . Demjanjuk faces deportation...
The security company known formerly as Blackwater Worldwide on Thursday concluded its operations in Baghdad as its contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq ended. A spokesperson from the US Embassy in Iraq [official...
The UK Home Office on Thursday released new proposals for a controversial DNA database that would remove the DNA information of innocent people. The Home Office said that DNA information...
