The leader of France's conservative party introduced legislation Tuesday to the National Assembly that would ban wearing of the burqa in public and make it punishable by 750...

Spanish Judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska ruled on Tuesday that Basque separatist group ETA had tried three times to assassinate former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar in 2001 but had failed. Grande-Marlaska detailed the three assassination attempts...

The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York filed a superseding indictment Tuesday against alleged Somali pirate Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, claiming that he led the takeover of two additional ships. Muse pleaded not guilty...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that searches performed by police without legitimate suspicion are illegal. The ECHR found that British police had violated Article 8 of the European Convention...

Smith, et al. v. Spisak, US Supreme Court, January 12, 2010 [holding unanimously that the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit contravened the directives of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act by extending Mills v. Maryland to...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In United States v. Comstock , the Court heard arguments on whether Congress...

The 2003 US-British invasion of Iraq was a violation of international law and was not supported by UN resolutions, according to a report released Tuesday by a Dutch parliamentary inquiry. The Dutch...

A UK court on Tuesday began the first non-jury criminal trial in England or Wales in more than 400 years. Defendants John Twomey, Peter Blake, Barry Hibberd, and Glen Cameron appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice, accused of...

Lawyers for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani argued Monday that the charges against their client should be dismissed. Ghailani's lawyers argued before Judge Louis Kaplan of the US District Court...

A Taiwanese court said Monday that former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian will be tried Friday in closed-door proceedings. The High Court said that proceedings, set for 9:30 AM Friday, would be closed to the...