A former US Marine sergeant, charged with two counts of voluntary manslaughter for allegedly killing two Iraqi insurgents during the Multinational National Force-Iraq's November 2004 offensive in Fallujah , can stand trial in federal court, according...
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted Thursday to approve a ban prohibiting the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from allowing private contractors to interrogate detainees. The ban is part of a bill authorizing intelligence...
Eight former British Guantanamo Bay detainees are suing the UK's MI5 (domestic) and MI6 (foreign) intelligence services over alleged complicity with the US in their illegal abduction, treatment and interrogation at the prison, according...
A Chilean court indicted five navy officers and a navy doctor Friday for their role in the kidnapping, torture, and killings of British-Chilean priest Micheal Woodward and other political dissidents. Retired admirals Sergio Barros, Guillermo Aldoney and Adolfo...
Former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines has agreed to pay $24.7 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) , OFHEO said Friday. In...
Protecting human rights is vital to bridging inequalities between countries, Pope Benedict XVI said Friday in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on the third day of his visit to the...
The Communist Party of Nepal - Maoists (CPN-M) has won 27 constituencies where vote counting has been completed in the election for Nepal's Constituent Assembly, election officials said Saturday. The 601 member assembly will...
Indonesian Internet providers said Friday that they will remove a ban on file-sharing websites including YouTube, Google Video, and MySpace , which was put in place to prevent the transmission of a controversial anti-Islamic film [JURIST...
The US will not attend a scheduled meeting in Dublin to draft a legally binding ban on cluster bombs in May, US State Department officials told reporters Friday. The US will instead...
Turkey must speed up political and social reforms to meet the criteria for accession into the European Union , European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a speech before the Turkish parliament...
