Leaders in the US Senate said Monday that a final vote on an immigration reform agreement reached last week will be delayed until June due to opposition from both sides in Congress. Some Republican senators...
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Texas (ACLU-Texas) won a temporary restraining order from the US District Court for the Northern District...
Afghanistan's Wolesi Jirga , the lower house of the Afghan parliament, removed outspoken parliamentarian Malalai Joya on Monday after she unfavorably compared the parliament to a stable. Joya's remarks, made during a private television interview, held...
Jumah Muhammad al-Dossari , a Bahraini detainee that has been held at Guantanamo Bay without charges since January 2002, threatened in a letter released Sunday by his lawyer that if he had "the opportunity ...
The Indonesian attorney general's office announced Monday that it will reopen a corruption probe against Tommy Suharto , son of former President Haji Mohammad Suharto . The announcement, made by Director of Investigations Mohammad...
Pakistan Supreme Court Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday Monday refuted arguments made by government lawyers that the Supreme Court of Pakistan should not "interfere with proceedings or assume jurisdiction" of the inquiry into alleged...
US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that he believed a "sizable number" of Republican members of Congress would join Democrats in a vote of no-confidence in...
The White House over the weekend defended an immigration reform agreement reached Thursday with key Republican and Democratic senators which has drawn opposition from both aisles of Congress, threatening what President Bush called a "secure, productive, orderly,...
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany announced the resignation of Justice Minister Jozsef Petretei Sunday following the surfacing of multiple allegations of police corruption, including a high-profile case involving the alleged rape of a woman by...
The US Army Court of Criminal Appeals (ACCA) issued a partial stay Friday in the court-martial of US Army 1st Lt. Ehren Watada after the defense filed a motion to dismiss asserting...
