The Supreme Court of Japan denied compensation claims made by five Chinese wartime slave laborers Friday, ruling that companies that utilized Chinese individuals were not obligated to provide compensation because the 1972 Joint Communique of the Government of Japan...

The US Marine Corps has been told to expect charges to be filed against five to seven Marines who are being investigated for killing ten civilians near Jalalabad, Afghanistan on March 4, according to a...

California state legislators Thursday approved a $8.3 billion dollar program to construct facilities to provide 53,000 new prison and jail beds over the next five years as part of an effort to alleviate...

The Supreme Court of Japan affirmed a Tokyo High Court decision Friday denying government compensation to two Chinese women who were forced to work as "comfort women" , because the 1972...

The US Department of Justice released an inventory of 171 internal documents withheld from Congress Thursday, resisting congressional demands that the department disclose and release emails and memos involving the controversial firing of eight US...

Two Canadian law professors and human rights activists have written to the International Criminal Court (ICC) , asking it to investigate "possible war crimes" by top Canadian defence officials. Michael Byers of the University of British Columbia and...

A Utah-based anti-spam technology company filed a lawsuit in US District Court in Alexandria Thursday in an effort to identify the people behind so-called "spambots" , programs that search the Internet for e-mail addresses to sell to spammers....

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced the transfer of two more Guantanamo Bay detainees Thursday - one to Afghanistan and another to Morocco, reducing to approximately 380 the number of detainees remaining at Guantanamo. According...

The White House admitted Thursday to holding about 20 briefings throughout 2006 and 2007 for federal agency employees to discuss the electability of Republican candidates, meetings similar to a January presentation that critics allege violated the Hatch Act [OSC...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech to both houses of the Russian parliament Thursday that he was putting Russia's implementation of the terms of the Conventional Forces in Europe...