An Egyptian court has adjourned the forgery trial of Ayman Nour , the Egyptian opposition leader who was ordered to re-appear in court earlier this week on charges connected to the submission of forged signatures [JURIST...
Antonio Guterres , the new UN High Commissioner for Refugees and former Portuguese prime minister, said Tuesday that international awareness of internal refugee issues was increasing and that countries had started to act to set and...
New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. Harvey filed lawsuits Monday against Hess , Shell , and Sunoco , alleging that the oil and gas giants and several independent gas-station owners...
Australian state and territory leaders Tuesday agreed to strict new anti-terror measures proposed by the federal government of Prime Minister John Howard which include detaining terror suspects for up to 48 hours without charge...
US District Judge Jed. S. Rakoff Monday denied government claims that he was interfering with the president's constitutional authority to wage war when he ordered that Guantanamo Bay detainees be asked if they...
A New York court Monday commenced proceedings in the civil trial arising out of the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center . The court will need to determine whether the Port Authority of New York and...
Gun control advocates are set to start an intensive media campaign to alert travelers about a new Florida law that allows people to respond to threats by using guns at home or in public ....
Egyptian judges Monday ordered opposition leader and recent presidential candidate Ayman Nour to appear in court again Tuesday to answer charges connected to the submission of forged signatures when his party applied for official recognition...
UN human rights officials have accused the government of Togo of using over-zealous force at the time of the heavily disputed April presidential elections , saying that government security and armed forces killed 400-500 people...
Joseph Serugendo, the former Technical Chief of Rwanda's Radio Télévision Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM) , nicknamed “Radio Machete” for inciting its listeners to commit murder, has been transferred to a United Nations detention facility in Tanzania [UN...
