Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said on Friday that he would like the state legislature to consider reinstating a ban on same-sex foster parents after the Arkansas Supreme Court Thursday struck down ...
A panel of federal judges in Texas has given parties to a lawsuit over Texas' congressional district two weeks to propose a solution to the 2003 Texas redistricting plan for the 23rd Congressional District, which...
A federal judge has extended a temporary restraining order preventing the state of Georgia from fully enforcing a law that restricts where convicted sex offenders can live. The restraining order issued Monday applied only to...
The Turkish Grand National Assembly broadened the country's anti-terror laws Thursday by adopting new legislation that delays a suspect's guaranteed access to a lawyer for the first 24 hours of detention and expands...
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples , a document which asserts that indigenous peoples worldwide should have the right to restitution...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Friday that he wants Australian-born terror suspect David Hicks to be tried in American courts even after the US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down military...
Ta Mok , the former military chief of the Khmer Rouge communist movement in Cambodia who was indicted on crimes against humanity charges in 1999 and has been in detention ...
China has approved stiffer penalties for people responsible for industrial accidents and white collar crimes, state media said on Friday. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) increased the maximum jail sentence from...
Ta Mok , the former military chief of the Khmer Rouge communist movement in Cambodia who was indicted for genocide in 1999, entered a hospital Thursday as his health continues to deteriorate since becoming...
A leading member of the Catholic Church expressed concern Thursday that the Church could be prosecuted for some of its traditional religious positions against abortion, same-sex marriage and stem cell research . In an interview [transcript, in...
