The French government on Friday condemned violent protests against the recently passed First Employment Contract (CPE) labor law. A group of student and union demonstrators clashed with French authorities around the Sorbonne University in Paris Thursday,...
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday ruled 2-1 in a three-judge panel decision that Tennessee can offer a pro-life specialty license plate even though it does not offer a pro-choice...
Adrian Severin, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus , censured the Belarusian government headed by President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday for a series of allegedly abusive tactics ahead of Sunday's presidential...
Protests by students across France increased on Thursday in response to the First Employment Contract (CPE) , a controversial labor law which allows employers to hire workers under 26 for a conditional two-year period at the end...
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice held Thursday that the US can seek extradition of Abdullah Khadr , who has been detained in Canada there since December 2005 on a US arrest warrant...
Chinese police have detained protesters in preparation for the annual ceremonial start of session of the National People's Congress in Beijing and forced them to return to their homes, human rights groups said Friday....
Mohammed al-Qahtani, the so-called "20th hijacker" from the Sept. 11 attacks, has disclaimed information he provided about 30 Guantanamo Bay detainees, alleging that the statements were coerced by torture, TIME magazine reported Friday. Qahtani was refused...
Prosecutor Douglas Gansler of the Montgomery County State's Attorneys Office in Maryland said Thursday that he will not seek the death penalty for DC sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad , who is charged with...
The Iraqi government placed Baghdad under a daytime vehicular curfew on Friday in an attempt to quell the sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites that has wracked the country since the bombing of the Askariya shrine on...
Libya freed 130 political prisoners on Thursday, among them 85 members of the Islamist opposition group Muslim Brotherhood , some of whom have been held since 1998. In 2002, the now-abolished People's Court sentenced the...
