US Army Master Sgt. John Hatley was convicted of murder and conspiracy in court-martial proceedings Wednesday for the killing of four unarmed Iraqi prisoners in 2007 and sentenced to life with the possibility of...
The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional a Florida state law that requires travel companies offering service to Cuba to post substantially higher bonds than companies...
The Bolivian National Congress approved Thursday the general framework of the electoral law that the new Bolivian constitution mandated within 60 days of its adoption. Earlier...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld Wednesday a lower court decision denying the habeas corpus petition of former Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega and authorizing his...
The conviction of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on Tuesday was met with widespread approval from the current Peruvian government and human rights organizations. Peruvian Prime Minister Yehuda Simon [official website, in...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that Venezuela would be willing to accept detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Chavez made his statements in an interview [El Universal report, in...
The US House of Representatives approved Tuesday a bill that would limit the government's ability to compel reporters to disclose confidential sources by delineating conditions under which it may do so. The Free Flow of Information Act...
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that the US Department of the Treasury will propose stronger rules in response to the current economic crisis, at a meeting with the Council on Foreign...
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya announced Monday that the government will conduct a poll to determine whether voters are receptive to a November referendum that would establish a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution....
US Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters Wednesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will consider accepting in the US the 17 Uighur Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release....
