Britain's High Court Thursday quashed the four-week suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone , originally handed down by the Adjudication Panel for England in February. The suspension was ordered after Livingstone...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued an emergency proclamation Wednesday to relieve prison overcrowding by allowing inmates to be transferred to other states. Citing severe overcrowding as a threat to the health and safety in...
Another Turkish author went on trial Thursday on charges that he "insulted the Turkish identity" in violation of Article 301 of the country's penal code. Ipek Calislar wrote that the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa...
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit sharply questioned federal officials Wednesday during oral arguments in the case of a Pakistani man who says he was detained because of his race,...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in the consolidated case of Lopez v. Gonzales and Toledo-Flores v. US , in which the Court will...
A coalition of Thai democracy activists and academics Tuesday called for newly appointed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont to lift the martial law imposed on the country by the military leaders who seized power...
A group of four UN human rights envoys reported Tuesday that Israel and Hezbollah both broke international humanitarian law during the 34-day Middle East conflict . Secretary-General Kofi Annan's representative on displaced people Walter Kaelin,...
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli made a formal apology Thursday to Maher Arar , the Canadian citizen who on suspicion of being linked to Al Qaeda was deported from the US...
Lawyers for Saddam Hussein called for an end to Saddam's genocide trial in a statement issued Thursday, rejecting the proceeding as nothing more than a "farce" used to "offend the dignity of president...
The Belgian Data Privacy Commission released an advisory report Thursday concluding that the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) , the Belgium-based international banking cooperative, has been supplying the US Department of Treasury...
