Australian Attorney General Phillip Ruddock said Tuesday that Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks will be among the first of the Guantanamo detainees to be brought to trial before new US military commissions. In...
The government of Zimbabwe has arrested at least 16,290 gold panners in the last three weeks in a continuation of its controversial Operation Restore Order , according to a report by Harare's Herald newspaper. Police...
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told reporters Wednesday that "the door remains open" for possible changes to the structure and procedure of a divisive UN-supported international tribunal being proposed to try suspects accused of...
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled unanimously Wednesday that it could not force the state legislature to vote on a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. After lawmakers failed to vote on the ballot initiative in...
In the latest corruption scandal involving Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian and his family, a Taiwanese court on Wednesday sentenced Chen son-in-law Chao Chien-min to six years in prison for insider trading. Chao Chien-min,...
The New Jersey Legislature passed a bill Thursday allowing same-sex civil unions in response to a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in October that said the...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling that defendants of slaves have no standing to sue companies that allegedly profited from slavery before the practice was abolished....
The US Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland has settled child sex abuse lawsuits with about 150 people, court-appointed mediators US District Judge Michael Hogan and Oregon Circuit Judge Lyle Velure announced [news...
Former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet suffered a heart attack Sunday, but is in stable yet serious condition after undergoing emergency surgery. The development represents another setback to recent attempts by Chilean authorities...
Rep. Jane Harman , ranking Democrat on the US House Intelligence Committee and initially a supporter of the Patriot Act and President Bush's domestic surveillance program , told a gathering of the American Bar...
