The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on Friday appointed three experts to investigate alleged international law violations by Israel in the ongoing Middle East conflict . The three-person panel was mandated by a resolution [PDF...
Arguing that the NSA domestic surveillance program is a necessary weapon in the war on terror, the US Department of Justice Friday filed a motion in federal court asking the court to delay enforcement of an...
Incumbent Mexican president Vicente Fox was blocked from delivering the traditional state-of the nation address (known in Spanish as "El Informe") before the Mexican Congress Friday evening by protesting leftist lawmakers supporting presidential...
The city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania on Friday agreed to delay for 20 days enforcement of a tough new local law against illegal immigration while it rewrites the ordinance in an effort to bolster it...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday found Croatian journalist Josip Jovic guilty of contempt of the Tribunal for publishing transcripts of a closed court session and revealing the identity...
A staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps was charged Tuesday with relaying secret national defense information to a person outside the government "with intent or reason to believe that the said information was...
A lawyer involved in the CIA leak case said Tuesday that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has identified himself as the "initial and primary source" for the Robert Novak column that revealed...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a pesticide rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) , saying that the regulation does not violate the Clean Air Act even though it may conflict...
Plaintiffs in the 10-year-old Indian Trust case on Monday petitioned the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reconsider a decision to pull an outspoken judge [JURIST...
Jordan's National Assembly on Sunday approved anti-terror legislation that opponents predict will unnecessarily curtail individual liberties. The bill, which will become law when signed by King Abdullah II , is Jordan's first attempt to address terrorism...
