Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf called for a ban on the "defamation of Islam" during his speech at the 61st Session of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Citing feelings in the Muslim...

The government of Rwanda and the UN-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday resolved a dispute over the court's alleged hiring of genocide suspects by agreeing to improve information-sharing mechanisms...

Mexican officials are willing to begin extraditing suspected drug lords held in Mexican custody to the US to face drug charges, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Tuesday at a press conference in New York. On...

Canada's House of Commons on Tuesday voted 172-116 to approve a controversial softwood lumber trade agreement between Canada and the US that would end a two-decades old trade dispute between the two countries by removing...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Tuesday defended US conduct in handling the Maher Arar case, saying that while the US did in fact deport the Canadian citizen, the US was "not responsible for his removal...

Thai Army chief Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin , who led Tuesday's coup ousting the Thai civilian government , told reporters Wednesday that he will serve as acting prime minister and hopes to find a replacement prime...

The Judicial Conference of the United States has approved policies requiring judges to disclose their sponsors when traveling to attend seminars, and to investigate financial conflicts of interest more closely. Under the first measure , nongovernmental sources who...

Lake v. Perdue, Superior Court of Georgia, September 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the ruling ....

Crime in the United States 2005, Federal Bureau of Investigation, September 19, 2006 . Read the full text of the report. Reported...

The Status of Muslim Rights in the United States 2006, Council on American Islamic Relations, September 19, 2006 [indicating a jump from 1,522 cases of anti-Muslim bias in 2004 to 1,972 cases in 2005 and attributing the rise to "anti-Muslim...