Abdul Aziz Hakim , leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and the countrys most powerful Shiite politician, said Wednesday that a new Iraqi government dominated by religious Shiites elected in the December 15 parliamentary...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in House v. Bell , where it will decide whether appellant Paul Gregory House, who was convicted and sentenced to death...
The UN Wednesday officially named Serge Brammertz , Deputy Prosecutor with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a former Belgian federal prosecutor, as the new Commissioner of the ongoing UN investigation into the February 2005 assassination...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld the dismissal of a suit alleging religious discrimination against General Motors (GM) . Writing for the court, Judge Ann Claire Williams...
Chile's Santiago Court of Appeals voted 21-3 Friday to strip Augusto Pinochet of political immunity in respect of a fraud charge against the 90-year-old former dictator, who was fingerprinted and photographed by Chilean police...
Defying a gag order by the UK Foreign Office , former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig S. Murray has posted two documents to his weblog suggesting that despite government denials, the British government...
Kentucky lawmakers are bracing for renewed debate over public displays of the Ten Commendments after a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld a display of the Ten Commandments [ruling text,...
Australian Human Rights Commissioner Sev Ozdowski , whose statutory appointment to the post ends Wednesday, has urged his successor to push for an Australian bill of rights to counter the tough anti-terror laws that the Australian...
Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Calvin Johnson has ordered the release without bail of as many as 100 prisoners who were arrested before Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area, but were never charged. Johnson,...
US Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , has said that the final version of the 2006 defense spending bill will likely contain a ban on cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment...
