Khalil Dulaimi , chief defense lawyer for deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein , said Sunday he had been notified by "the Americans" that defense lawyers for Hussein and his co-defendants would not be allowed access...
Interpol Sunday issued an urgent global security alert following the escape from a prison in Yemen of 23 individuals, some of them suspected Al Qaeda members. Among the fugitives is Jamal Ahmed Badawi...
Steven Bradbury , acting head of the US Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel , told Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in a closed Senate Intelligence Committee meeting last week that the president may...
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced Monday that the number of anti-Semitic and racist acts reported in France dropped significantly in 2005. Anti-Semitic acts (defined as violence or threats...
Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, the eldest daughter of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , was released on bail Monday after appearing in a Santiago appeals court two days after she returned to Chile to...
Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) , a Republican member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee , Sunday questioned the legitimacy of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program , casting doubt on its legality in the absence...
The UK plan for national identification cards received another setback Sunday when Lord Carlile , the Liberal Democrat peer appointed by the British government as an independent reviewer of its anti-terror laws, said...
Several detainees involved in the continuing Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes are close to death, according to lawyers acting for the detainees. Despite force-feedings by the US military, there is concern for two emaciated Yemenis and a...
The US Army has issued new regulations governing the military death penalty . What the Army is calling a "major revision", however, raises questions whether the military is considering its first execution since 1961, when Army...
Defense lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby , the former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney indicted last October in the CIA leak case , petitioned Monday to use classified evidence in his...
