The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Saturday announced that three more detainees have been released from the Guantanamo Bay prison. Two Uzbek detainees were transferred to Ireland and one Yemeni national...

Police used unnecessary force to disperse demonstrations at the Pittsburgh Group of 20 (G-20) Summit , several civil liberties groups said Friday. Witold "Vic" Walczak, Legal Director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) ...

The Obama administration may not be able to meet the January deadline set early this year for the closure of Guantanamo Bay , senior administration officials said Friday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials told AP,...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday denied that Iran had broken nuclear development regulations in respect to a newly-disclosed nuclear facility, insisting that the applicable disclosure rules only require notice six months before nuclear material...

German President Horst Koehler on Friday signed the EU reform treaty, known as the Lisbon Treaty , completing the country's problematic ratification process. The signature was the final step for ratification, after the...

The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday upheld the admissibility of the case against former Congolese militia leader Germain Katanga . Katanga had argued that charges of...

The trial of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert opened Friday on charges of fraud and corruption that led to his resignation last year. Olmert is accused of illegally accepting cash contributions from American...

The UK High Court on Friday upheld a law that permits mandatory retirement policies for workers who reach the age of 65, but said that there is a "compelling" case for raising the age above 65. The...

The South Korean Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that a ban on nighttime assemblies is an unconstitutional violation of the right to free assembly. The court gave the National Assembly until June 30, 2010, to amend...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that Russia is liable for the disappearance of two Chechen civilians. In the cases of Akhmed Rezvanov and Ramzan Babushev , the ECHR found Russia...