A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the release of Russian Guantanamo Bay detainee Ravil Mingazov . Judge Henry Kennedy Jr ordered the...
Haitian prosecutors on Thursday requested a six-month prison term for a US missionary accused of illegally trying to remove 33 children from the country in the wake of the January 12 earthquake . Prosecutors claimed that Laura...
Israeli forces unlawfully destroyed civilian property during the 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza strip, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Thursday. According to the report,...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed its first response to one of several lawsuits challenging the controversial new health care reform law . In a brief filed in the...
Ukrainian prosecutors said Wednesday that they have reopened a criminal investigation of opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko . The probe into accusations that Tymoshenko attempted to bribe Supreme...
Canadian resident Prapaharan Thambithurai pleaded guilty Tuesday to raising money for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the nation's first case involving fundraising for a banned terrorist group. Thambithurai admitted raising between $2,000 and...
The Oklahoma Senate on Tuesday voted 32-11 in favor of a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to complete a questionnaire. The bill, known as the Statistical Abortion Report...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio on Monday ruled that the US Treasury Department must show probable cause for freezing the assets of an Ohio-based charity...
The French National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Islamic burqa and other full face veils as contrary to gender equality. The resolution passed with 434...
The Egyptian Parliament on Tuesday voted to extend the country's state of emergency for two years. Despite the two-year extension, parliament voted to limit the application of the emergency laws only...
