US President George W. Bush asked urged Congress Friday to pass legislation "modernizing" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) , calling on members of Congress to postpone their scheduled August recess...
A military jury sentenced US Marine Cpl. Marshall L. Magincalda to 448 days confinement and demoted Magincalda to private Friday for his role in the April 2006 kidnapping and murder of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim...
Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama said Thursday that Rwanda has signed extradition treaties with countries in Africa, Europe, and North America following its abolition of the death penalty in July. The law ending the death penalty, which...
The UK parliament's Joint Committee on the Draft Climate Change Bill urged parliament to amend the draft climate change bill to include the monitoring and analysis of all greenhouse emissions instead of only carbon dioxide...
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Friday that the FBI's conduct during an 18-hour raid on the congressional offices of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) was unconstitutional, finding that...
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit lifted a stay Thursday on the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Belbacha to Algeria. The court instead put Belbacha's appeal on an expedited schedule. Belbacha...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday ordered the release on bail of jailed opposition leader Javed Hashmi pending his appeal of his 2004 conviction for allegedly inciting mutiny in the armed forces, forgery and...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard Friday rejected calls for an independent judicial inquiry into the Australian government's handling of the terror case against Dr. Mohammad Haneef , calling it a political "stunt" by opposition...
Chilean authorities on Thursday announced the capture of former Gen. Raul Iturriaga Neumann, a former high-ranking intelligence official with the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) during the reign of former dictator Augusto Pinochet ....
China is increasing its control over human rights activists and other political dissidents ahead of the Beijing 2008 Olympics , Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday. HRW says that leaders in the Communist Party...
