The US and Libya have agreed to find a way to speed compensation for families of Americans who were killed by acts of terrorism authorized by the Libyan government, both countries said in a statement issued by the...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Friday defended the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in the face of a resolution by the Icelandic parliament calling...
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Friday that a major provision in the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) is constitutional. The court's decision in...
The European Parliament Thursday approved a report calling for a mandatory registry of lobbyists seeking access to EU lawmakers . The measure was passed 547-24, with 59 abstaining. The Parliament also supported...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled that German surveillance flights over Turkey conducted in 2003 during the lead-up to the Iraq War were unconstitutional. The court held that...
The Maryland Court of Appeals has ruled that the Islamic talaq , a controversial practice under which a husband can divorce his wife without her say, violates the state constitution and therefore does not constitute...
The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) both filed legal challenges to the parliamentary results of Zimbabwe's March 29 general election Wednesday. ZANU-PF filed...
US President George W. Bush submitted three new nominations for the Federal Elections Commissions (FEC) to the Senate Tuesday in an effort to break a deadlock which has left the FEC without a quorum to...
Kenyan Chief Prosecutor Keriako Tobiko Tuesday asked the country's high court to freeze the assets of wealthy Hutu businessman and Rwandan war crimes suspect Felicien Kabuga . Kabuga is accused of funding Rwandan militias that...
An Al Jazeera cameraman from Sudan who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 was released from the prison on Thursday and flown back to Sudan early Friday morning. Sami al...
