A federal judge Friday overturned his previous ruling dismissing 16 lawsuits challenging the indefinite detention of about 40 terror suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay , in the process avoiding new limitations on lawyers' access to...
The UN special envoy to Myanmar noted what he characterized as continuing and disturbing reports of abuses being committed by security and non-uninformed elements at a meeting of the UN Security Council Friday as Myanmar officials continued the hunt...
The Chinese Medical Association (CMA) agreed at a meeting of the World Medical Association in Copenhagen Friday to end the harvesting of organs from prisoners, except for transplant into close relatives. In a letter to...
The top military prosecutor for the Guantanamo war crimes trials has resigned his post, according to a US Department of Defense (DOD) spokesman Friday. Air Force Col. Moe Davis requested a transfer from Guantanamo...
The Supreme Court of Canada Thursday ruled that police officers can be held liable for inadequate investigations, in a case that could have major repercussions for the way that Canadian police work is...
New Turkish President Abdullah Gul Wednesday proposed amending a law that makes it a crime to insult Turkish national identity. Gul said at a Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg that the law...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Wednesday that reported Pakistani promises to drop pending corruption charges against her amount to "disinformation" and indicated that talks with President Pervez Musharraf ...
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Thursday refused to sign a bill that would have limited the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) to only investigating crimes committed after 2003. The amendment, deleting portions of the 2003...
The US will donate $5 million to the UN-backed tribunal established to investigate and try suspects in the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay...
US Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) said Thursday that he would fight subpoenas issued by the US Department of Justice for documents, including legislative records, relating to disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff . Doolittle's...
