US District Judge Ricardo Urbina has ordered the Secret Service to release visitor logs for the personal residence and office of Vice-President Dick Cheney . In his ruling Wednesday, Urbina gave the Bush Administration until...

Hezbollah Hit Israel with Cluster Munitions During Conflict, Human Rights Watch, October 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported...

Portugal's Parliament Thursday approved holding a national referendum allowing voters to decide on making abortion legal up until the 10th week of pregnancy. Current Portuguese abortion law allows the procedure up until...

International Committee of the Red Cross President Jakob Kellenberger said Thursday that certain provisions of the newly-signed Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) are too vague and could...

The New York State Supreme Court Thursday ordered former New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard A. Grasso to pay back a major portion of the compensation paid to him while he held that...

A Superior Court of Ontario judge Thursday threw out part of a secrecy law invoked to search a reporter's home for the source of the story she published on Maher Arar . Juliet O'Neill ,...

The US Defense Department Office of the Inspector General has concluded that the US military's use of a propaganda program in Iraq was legal, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. While the program involved planting and paying for...

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday denied an emergency motion to prevent the US military from surrendering translator and accused kidnapper Mohammad Munaf, a US citizen,...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirmed for the first time Thursday that Hezbollah used cluster bombs during the recent conflict with Israel. According to HRW:International humanitarian law (the laws of war) obliges warring parties...

A massive demonstration attended by thousands of people protesting the disappearance of Jorge Julio Lopez clogged the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday. The protest represents the third time such a demonstration has taken place...