US Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald played portions of White House briefing room videos Thursday as the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby continued. Fitzgerald said the tapes show Libby's eagerness to publicly...

Muhammad Salah and Abdelhaleem Ashqar, two of three men indicted in 2004 by a US federal grand jury on charges of engaging in a 15-year conspiracy of providing funds to Hamas , were found not...

The Eminent Jurist’s Panel (EJP) , an arm of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) , announced the results of an inquiry into Russian anti-terrorism efforts Thursday, concluding after two days of public hearings...

Jennifer Gratz et al. v. Lee Bollinger et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, January 31, 2007 [order approving settlement of a suit challenging the former affirmative action policies of the University of Michigan, decertifying the...

Morocco will become the first Arab country to eliminate the death penalty , a state representative confirmed on Thursday. President of the Consultative Committee on Human Rights, Ben Dhikri, made the comments in the run-up to this...

China is prepared to work with other countries to create an agreement that would prevent an arms race in space , Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Thursday. The statement comes amid international outcry ...

The UN Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) has raised only half of the $33 million needed for the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor , according to...

The French Parliament has put off debate on whether to allow class action lawsuits in the country's legal system after the French National Assembly struck proposed legislation from its February schedule in...

A UK jury Thursday convicted Abdul Saleem of inciting racial hatred for his role in leading protests outside the Danish embassy in London in February 2006 against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that...

US soldiers taunted detainees at Guantanamo Bay with pictures of Saddam Hussein's hanging in "an attempt to intimidate and compel submission under a threat of death and mentally torture," according to comments made Thursday...