The US Department of Justice said Tuesday that it is backing an attempt by congressional Republicans to split up the largest federal appeals court in the US, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official...
The Iraqi Islamic Party , one of Iraq's largest Sunni parties, on Wednesday demanded an international investigation into allegations that security forces illegally detained and tortured suspected insurgents at secret jails in Baghdad. Omar...
Eight advocacy groups Monday filed a complaint in US district court on behalf of the 6.4 million people who qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid to make sure that no elderly or disabled Americans lose access to prescription...
The Libyan Supreme Court Tuesday postponed its verdict until January 31 for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who had received death sentences following their convictions for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with the HIV virus [JURIST...
Major US media organization Dow Jones & Co. , publisher of the Wall Street Journal and other publications, on Monday challenged efforts by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to keep documents secret in the CIA leak case...
The US Senate is set to vote Tuesday on a compromise offered by senators in response to last Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts in order...
The UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) , in its second bi-monthly human rights report covering the period from September 1 to October 31, on Monday warned of human rights violations in Iraq ...
Two Bangladeshi judges were killed on Monday after a man threw a bomb at their car while the judges were on their way to the Jhalakathi district court, 155 miles south of Dhaka. Police said a young man has...
The French Cabinet Monday approved an extension to emergency powers authorized earlier this month in order to help quell riots that started on October 27. Parliament is expected to approve the...
Both the number of people sentenced to death and the number executed declined in 2004, according to US Justice Department statistics released Sunday. According to the report, in 2004 a dozen states executed 59...
