The US-led Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF) announced Monday that it had released an Afghan freelance journalist detained since last year as an enemy combatant . A military spokesman said Jawed Ahmad, who had been...

Lawyers in Nepal began a boycott of court proceedings Sunday to protest the suspension of the national bar association's leader by the Nepalese Supreme Court . The court last week suspended Bishwa Kanta...

ACLU v. Department of Defense, US Court of Appeals For the Second Circuit, September 22, 2008 ....

The Federal Reserve Board on Sunday preliminarily approved applications by independent investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to convert to bank holding companies, which would put the banks under Federal Reserve regulation, grant them...

South African President Thabo Mbeki insisted in an official resignation speech Sunday that allegations of his interference with the judiciary in the context of the Jacob Zuma case were incorrect. Top ANC officials called...

A US federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction requiring US Vice President Dick Cheney to preserve all his official records pending resolution of a lawsuit alleging that his office has failed...

Pakistani Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar swore in four previously ousted judges as new members of the country's Supreme Court Saturday, bringing the number of the judges on the reconstituted court to 29. Justice Sardar...

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ruled that the civil rights of former Army Special Forces officer Diane Schroer were violated after a job offer to...

The Pentagon on Friday announced that US Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann , the controversial legal advisor to the US military commissions at Guantanamo and supervisor of the Office of Military Commissions-Prosecution...

Diane J. Schroer v. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, US District Court for the District of Columbia, September 20, 2008 [ruling that the civil rights of a former Army Special Forces officer were violated after a job offer to...