Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks pleaded guilty to a charge of supporting terrorism at an appearance before a US military commission Monday after the presiding judge unexpectedly disqualified two of his three lawyers....
A US federal judge Friday refused to dismiss terrorism support charges against Jose Padilla , finding that Padilla's 3 1/2 years in custody as an "enemy combatant" did not violate his constitutional...
The Russian Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Republican Party one of Russia's oldest opposition parties, was too small to be considered a political party under a 2004 Russian law and...
Hundreds of email documents released by the US Department of Justice late Monday show that, contrary to its earlier claims, the White House was deeply involved in discussions to fire eight US Attorneys last year, according to...
Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar filed a lawsuit Friday against the Nigerian electoral commission after it issued a ruling Thursday prohibiting him from running in the upcoming April presidential. The commission cited...
White House advisor Karl Rove originally suggested firing all 93 US Attorneys in January 2005, according to an email conversation released by the US Department of Justice Thursday. The e-mails appear to contradict the...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , long thought to be the strategist behind the Sept.11, 2001 attacks, confessed to masterminding the 9/11 attacks during a hearing Saturday at Guantanamo Bay , according to a transcript [text,...
A Swiss court Friday convicted Turkish Workers Party leader Dogu Perincek for denying that the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I constituted genocide . The Swiss canton...
US military hearings on whether 14 top terror suspects formerly held in CIA secret prisons qualify as "enemy combatants" began Friday at Guantanamo Bay . Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs)...
The Cambodian government uses systematic human rights and civil liberty violations to maintain its hold on power, according to a report by UN special rights representative Yash Ghai and obtained by AFP. The report listed illegal land...
