The US Senate Judiciary Committee approved the National Security Surveillance Act of 2006 Wednesday, a bill that pushes forward Republicans' efforts to confer legal status on the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news...
The Shiite United Iraqi Alliance presented a draft plan for dictating the division of Iraq into autonomous regions to the Iraq National Assembly on Wednesday. The draft law reportedly provides for autonomy for the Shiite-majority...
The highest court in the Netherlands, the Hoge Raad der Nederlanden , on Tuesday affirmed the use of intelligence information in terror prosecutions by sustaining the convictions of three defendants charged with terrorist activity....
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Tuesday identified increasing financial costs in the war on terrorism as the reason that additional federal funding for local and state law enforcement is not forthcoming. Mayors and police...
The Supreme Court of New Jersey on Tuesday ruled 5-1 that the state's Charitable Immunity Act , which protects non-profit organizations from ordinary negligence claims, permits plaintiffs to sue non-profits on sex...
The UN Sub-Commission on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights on Monday denounced the "massive denial of human rights" in the ongoing conflict in Lebanon and called on the UN Security Council ...
US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia denied a request Monday from Texas Republican Party chair Tina Benkiser seeking to stay a federal appeals court ruling that former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay...
The US Senate voted 71-25 Tuesday to approve the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 , which would allow oil and gas drilling in about 8.3 million acres of federal waters...
Authorities in Burundi on Tuesday arrested five former government officials, including Vice President Alphonse Kadege, as well as a rebel leader and two others suspected of plotting a coup to overthrow the African nation's government, according to...
Amnesty International urged Haiti's government Tuesday to release political prisoners being held indefinitely pending trial. According to the human rights group, about 2,000 people are under "prolonged detention," and close to 100 of them could be political...
