More than a hundred officials of Saddam Hussein's regime have been charged for their roles in quelling the Shiite uprising following the 1990-91 Gulf War that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Shiites, according...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that two Chechen brothers were tortured by the Russian military during their 6-month detention in 2000 and awarded each brother 35,000 ($57,665) compensation. Adam and Arbi Chitayev,...
Several Iraqi citizens sued a leading European bank and Australia's wheat exporting agency in New York federal court Friday for corporate misconduct facilitating the corruption of the Iraq Oil-for-Food program which bilked Iraqis out of humanitarian...
Sixteen Saudis and a Bangladeshi man repatriated from Guantanamo Bay earlier this week to their home countries are being detained by their governments. Saudi Arabian authorities say they are holding their nationals in order to investigate...
Three Texas landlords filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the constitutionality of strict measures against illegal immigrants passed last month in their Dallas suburb . The defendants in the federal court action are the city...
The US House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct concluded Friday that although Republican leaders did not break any ethics rules in addressing the misconduct of disgraced ex-Congressman Mark Foley , they nonetheless failed...
The number of journalists imprisoned for their writings increased for the second year in a row in 2006 and one-third of those jailed are Internet journalists or bloggers, according to a new worldwide report from the Committee to...
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa ordered the Zambian Police Service Wednesday to ban future rallies led by populist opposition politician Michael Sata , disregarding recommendations by national Solicitor-General Sunday Nkonde. Mwanawasa had ordered police to...
The Canadian Parliament will revisit the issue of same-sex marriage next week, with debate on a federal law permitting same-sex marriage scheduled to begin in the House of Commons Wednesday. The ruling Conservative...
Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has had to put its operations on hold due to lack of funds, according to its acting chairman. The TRC is charged with investigating and documenting...
