Kenyan police Saturday confirmed that Ethiopian authorities have released eight suspected Kenyan terrorists, saying that the suspects have been reunited with their families. Kenyan authorities rendered the suspects to Somalia in early 2007, where they were handed over to...

The US Department of Defense Friday announced the referral of nine terrorism-related charges against Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani , who is accused of involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania...

The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on Friday reopened its courthouse in Kosovo's northern city of Mitrovica. The courts were closed after being taken over by Serbian protesters in March...

Investigators from the Russian Prosecutor General's Office have completed their investigation into the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya , Russian news agencies reported Thursday. Three men, Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, and brothers Dzhabrail...

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Thursday overturned the convictions of Yemeni cleric Sheikh Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad and assistant, Mohammed Zayed , also from Yemen, because of evidentiary errors that...

The Iraqi Presidency Council on Friday signed a provincial elections bill allowing for voting in most of the country early next year. The final version did not include a controversial clause that Staffan de Mistura [appointment...

The US House of Representatives on Friday passed a $700 billion financial rescue bill that President Bush quickly signed into law . The House approved the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008...

Nine US states and the Canadian province of Manitoba sued the US Environmental Protection Agency Thursday, alleging that an agency regulation allows the discharge of polluted water in violation of the Clean Water Act [text;...

United States v. Al-Moayad & Zayed, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, October 2, 2008 [overturning the terrorism-related convictions of a Yemeni cleric and his assistant due to evidential errors that were prejudicial to the extend that...

Sir Ian Blair resigned Thursday from his position as Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service ("Met") , effective December 1, 2008. Blair cited a strained relationship with the newly-elected mayor of London, Boris Johnson ,...