The US House Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to defeat two independent bids by lawmakers that would have repealed part or all of the "Tiahrt Amendment" , which since 2003 has restricted the public release of...

The latest proposal for a UN-supervised independence plan for Kosovo has been rejected by the Russian government, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday. The US, France and the UK offered the...

Former Chadian president Hissene Habre , who has been charged with crimes against humanity, will stand trial before a Senegalese criminal court, rather than before a special tribunal as previously decided, Senegal's Justice Minister Sheik...

A panel of the US House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to move forward with contempt proceedings against former White House counsel Harriet Miers after she ignored a subpoena ordering her to appear and testify at...

United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby, US District Court for the District of Columbia, July 12, 2007 [ruling that the President's commutation of Libby's prison term did not necessarily remove Libby's supervised release and entering into the record...

A series of interviews with US veterans of the Iraq war shows a pattern of systematic human rights abuses, according to a new report in The Nation . The magazine calls the investigation, which yielded thousands of...

UN International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) head Serge Brammertz said in a report to the UN Security Council Thursday that the probe into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri [JURIST news...

Jonathan 'Jack' Idema , an American civilian convicted of illegal imprisonment and torture as a rogue vigilante in Afghanistan in 2004, filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press Thursday, alleging that AP defamed,...

A spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary said Wednesday that 20 sex offenders and violent criminals will be executed by hanging over the next few days. Among the condemned are at least 15 arrested in May during a...

The Iraqi government has shown sufficient progress in its efforts to develop a constitutional review process, but is not making satisfactory progress in passing laws on the distribution of oil revenues and de-Baathification reform, according to the Initial Benchmark...