Six foreign medics sentenced to death in Libya will not be executed, according to Libyan Secretary of the Foreign Affairs Committee Suleiman Shahoumi, quoted by Bulgarian media. In December, a Libyan court...

A US Department of Justice review of the FBI's use of so-called national security letters (NSLs) and ex parte orders for business records criticizes the Bureau for ineffective management, monitoring and reporting of the programs....

UN High Commissioner Louise Arbour marked International Women's Day Thursday with a stark message on violence against women , urging an end to impunity for what was paradoxically the "most common but least...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told senators in a private meeting Thursday that the Bush administration would drop its objection to proposed legislation requiring Senate confirmation of all US Attorneys, reversing a rule change approved a year ago in...

Two Albany, New York men convicted in a money laundering scheme set up as an FBI sting were each sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison. Former imam at Masjid as-Salam mosque Yassin Aref and mosque co-founder...

The Sudanese trial of Ali Kushayb , one of the two suspects accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of committing war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region, and two other security officials has been delayed after Kushayb...

A new law to protect private property in China was presented to the Chinese legislature on Thursday. The law, in the making since 1993, would define the scope of public and private property to advance the...

The Disability Law Center of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) on Thursday, saying the state's treatment of mentally ill prisoners violates the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act...

The CIA operated a secret interrogation and short-term detention facility for suspected terrorists from 2002 to 2004 in a Polish intelligence training school with the explicit approval of British and US authorities, according to a Raw Story...

Police surrounded the Congress of Ecuador on Thursday following a decision by the country's highest electoral court to dismiss 57 of its 100 lawmakers. In a questionable exercise of authority, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal ruled...