Twenty-eight people died Tuesday during a raid on a Philippine maximum security prison as police acted to suppress an uprising headed by prisoners affiliated with the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group . Abu Sayyaf is linked to al-Qaida and...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour told the 61st session of the UN Commission on Human Rights Monday that nations are falling short of their responsibilities to protect and promote human...
Addressing an audience at DC's Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Monday, Justice Antonin Scalia of the US Supreme Court called the recent 5-4 ruling striking down the juvenile death penalty the latest...
Britain's Joint Committee on Human Rights warned Friday that the proposed Prevention of Terrorism Bill , even with an amendment allowing only judges to impose house arrest on terror suspects, does not...
Russian prosecutors said Friday that they have arrested four people suspected of planning the Beslan school siege last year, in which over 300 people died. Five other suspects were killed while resisting arrest. A Russian commission investigating...
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson said Friday that corporate lawyers should devote more time to helping clients obey the law, rather than evading it. Speaking to a gathering of securities lawyers [PLI...
A US Department of Agriculture spokesperson said Thursday that the USDA will appeal yesterday's federal court decision to delay the re-opening of US border to cattle imports from Canada . USDA...
US Bankruptcy Judge Letitia Clark ruled Thursday that she will not reinstate Russian oil company Yukos' bankruptcy filing, which she dismissed last week for lack of jurisdiction in the United States. Late last...
Dietrich Snell, senior counsel for the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States and NY deputy attorney general, said Wednesday that he will testify at the German trial of 9/11 suspect Mounir El Motassadeq [BBC...
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Wednesday partially reversed a lower court decision that exposed Microsoft to $565 million in damages for patent infringement. The lower court had found that Microsoft's Internet...
