The head of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Friday reassured the Lebanese public that the investigation is on track. When asked about the progress of the investigation into the death of...
A US federal court Friday ordered a final judgment of $22 million against Charles Emmanuel "Chuckie" Taylor, Jr." to be paid to five torture victims. Charles was charged with torture while he was in...
The White House is considering moving the trials of alleged 9/11 conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other high-profile terror suspects out of New York City, a senior official said Friday. Although the deputy press secretary reaffirmed...
Honduran President Porfirio Lobo on Wednesday granted amnesty to both former president Manuel Zelaya and military leaders accused of participation in a June 2009 coup against Zelaya. Making the decree...
Imam Hassen Chalghoumi of Paris gave his support Friday to a proposed law that would ban wearing the burqa or niqab in public. In an interview with Le Parisien, Chalghoumi said that the...
US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Friday that Haitians who arrived illegally after last week's earthquake would be sent back to Haiti. Napolitano told a news conference that Haitians should...
The Parliament of the Republic of Angola approved a new constitution on Thursday that would end the popular election of the president, despite the refusal of opposition party UNITA to take part in the vote....
US Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) that combating financial fraud is a priority for the Department of Justice (DOJ) . When asked whether the reallocation...
The legal advisers for the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen , have advised him to delay an internal effort to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" [10 USC § 654 text; JURIST...
Rwandan lawmakers may introduce a bill to criminalize denial of the 1994 Rwandan genocide , according to Thursday reports. A senior researcher at the Rwanda National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (CNLG) ...
