The White House on Wednesday said it has serious concerns over parts of the proposed Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act , which is currently being debated in the US Senate . The bill, if...
Officials from the joint UN-Cambodia Khmer Rouge Genocide Tribunal being set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders said Thursday that the first trials should begin in 2007. Though no...
Lawyers for the US Justice Department on Tuesday urged a federal judge to dismiss Connecticut's lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act , arguing that the state understood the law's requirements when officials accepted federal education funding...
Israeli police Wednesday forcibly evacuated a West Bank Jewish settlement at Amona and demolished nine houses illegally built on Palestinian land after the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal by residents. The...
British police Friday charged Muhedin Ali, 27, in connection with the attempt to bomb the London subway and a bus on July 21, 2005. Ali was arrested January 17 and is charged with helping another bomber, Hussein Osman, evade...
The Russian Justice Ministry has asked a court to close down the Russian Human Rights Research Center, a major human rights umbrella group, based on allegations that the center has not filed reports on its...
Lawyers for Tariq Aziz , the former Iraqi deputy prime minister under the Saddam Hussein regime, have asked Italy and Croatia to grant him asylum if Aziz is released from US detention....
The Nepalese government on Thursday arrested over 52 senior politicians and activists in an apparent attempt to shut down an anti-government rally planned for Friday in the capital. The government banned demonstrations and imposed a night curfew...
The Iraqi Ministry of Justice said Thursday that the US military would release six Iraqi women prisoners from Abu Ghraib prison , but insisted the release is not in response to threats from a...
A Bangladesh court Monday sentenced a member of the outlawed Islamist militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen to 15 years in prison for involvement in a wave of bomb attacks across the country on August 17 last year that killed...
