Myanmar opposition group 88 Generation Students urged Burmese voters Friday to reject the country's new draft constitution in an upcoming national referendum . The group said in a public statement that the new constitution would...

US Chief Justice John Roberts and Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas told a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday that Congress should pass a bill to raise the pay of federal judges in an attempt to...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday condemned Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip and called on Israel to end its use of "disproportionate and excessive force" against Palestinians. Speaking at a summit of the Organization...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to compel the US government to release unredacted transcripts of military hearings conducted at Guantanamo Bay in early 2007...

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has established a panel to investigate the December 2007 disputed presidential election that sparked mass violence in the country, according to a Thursday statement from his office. The panel is expected...

The FBI has continued to improperly use so-called national security letters (NSLs) , with the number of violations increasing in 2006 over previous years, according to a US Department of Justice follow-up review released...

The trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday postponed the trial date of former Union of Patriotic Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga until June 23, 2008. Lubanga's trial...

A US military judge ruled Thursday that some correspondence between the US and Canadian government officials regarding Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr must be turned over to Khadr's defense team. Prosecutors argued that they had...

A Review of the FBI's Use of National Security Letters: Assessment of Corrective Actions and Examination of NSL Usage in 2006, US Department of Justice, March 13, 2008 . Read the...

Armenian President Robert Kocharian Thursday issued a decree lifting media restrictions put in place during a state of emergency declared after last month's contested presidential election. The decree is set to take effect Friday, but...