Egypt's four largest opposition parties - the Tagammu, Karama, Wafd and Nasserist parties - announced Thursday they will boycott next week's referendum on controversial constitutional amendments proposed last year by President Hosni Mubarak [official profile;...
Chiquita Brands International, Inc. pleaded guilty Monday to one count of engaging in transactions with a specially-designated global terrorist organization after admitting to deals with Colombian terrorists. The Cincinnati-based company is charged with...
The FBI largely ignored growing concerns from its own lawyers and managers about the lawfulness of retrieving thousands of telephone records of US citizens between 2004 to 2006, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The allegations follow a...
Over 100 members of the Egypt parliament boycotted a Sunday parliamentary session called to debate constitutional amendments proposed last year by President Hosni Mubarak . Critics say the amendments, which target 34 articles...
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has filed for an injunction to delay his military trial currently scheduled to start March 20 . Maj. Michael Mori, Hicks' Pentagon-appointed lawyer, said Saturday that Hicks' defense team...
The German Federal Court of Justice on Thursday ruled Nazi symbols could be used to protest extremism, overturning an October decision by a state court in Stuttgart . The lower court had ordered Juergen Kamm,...
French President Jacques Chirac will be questioned by a judge this summer regarding his involvement in rigging public works contracts to finance political parties when he was mayor of Paris in the late 1980s and...
The US Department of Defense announced Thursday that it has transferred five more Guantanamo Bay detainees to their home countries for detention or release, bringing the total number of detainees released from Guantanamo...
A German probe into the US detention of Murat Kurnaz , a Turkish citizen born in Germany who was held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly five years, is being delayed because...
The Chinese parliament will consider amending a law allowing the state to send criminal suspects to labor camps without a trial during the National People's Congress (NPC) scheduled for next week, the China Daily reported...
