Saddam Hussein could be put to death by hanging within months if he's convicted in his first trial, according to the chief prosecutor for the Iraqi High Criminal Court, formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ....
The American Bar Association called on President Bush Monday to stop warrantless domestic surveillance or change the laws to make it legal. At the Association's midyear meeting in Chicago the ABA's policy-setting...
Recent race riots in the Los Angeles jail system have prompted authorities to begin transferring county prison inmates to the state corrections system. After several riots in various jail facilities left two inmates dead and...
Government investigators told the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a hearing Monday that the relief effort for Hurricane Katrina had been plagued by fraud and...
Montenegro has set April 30th as the date for a nationwide referendum for independence from Serbia. Serbia and Montenegro are the only two surviving republics of the former Yugoslavia, which broke apart...
German officials are in talks with their US counterparts for the release of a German-born man who has been held in Guantanamo Bay for almost four years. Murat Kurnaz , a...
China Sunday issued it first guidelines on HIV/AIDS , banning discrimination against those infected by the virus and providing for free treatment. The new guidelines were promulgated in response to the already-large number of...
Insisting his was a country where freedom prevailed, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday expressly condemned a new ruling by Turkey's high administrative court that a teacher should be refused promotion because of her decision...
Manitoba MP Vic Toews became the new Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Monday when he was sworn in along with the rest of the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper at...
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales late Monday concluded a day of testimony before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on the Bush administration's controversial domestic surveillance program . Although Gonzales maintained that...
