Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri was removed from presiding over the second Saddam Hussein trial on Tuesday, Al-Iraqiya state television reported. A replacement judge, who has not yet been named, has been requested by the Iraqi prime...

Corporal David Payne, one of seven British soldiers facing court-martial for charges relating to the abuse of Iraqi detainees, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of inhumane treatment, becoming the first British soldier to...

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra declared a state of emergency in Bangkok Tuesday after army tanks assembled around government buildings in the city, blocking traffic. In the face of a rumored coup in Thailand [JURIST...

The number of violent crimes increased in 2005 for the first time since 2001, according to the 2005 annual report on violent crime published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Monday. The report...

Reported incidents of anti-Muslim bias, harassment, discrimination and violence in the US increased by 29.6 percent in 2005, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) , the largest US Muslim civil liberties group, announced Monday. A new CAIR report...

Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Shaker Aamer , a UK resident held by the US since 2002, filed a motion in federal district court Monday seeking Aamer's release from solitary confinement,...

Iraq's National Assembly on Tuesday again postponed debate on a draft federalism bill that would allow Iraq's 18 provinces to form strong governments with their own security forces. Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said Tuesday that...

The trial of Simon Bikindi began Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda with prosecutors accusing the popular singer of "us his fame to incite hatred" during the 1994 Rwandan...

Report of the Events Relating to Maher Arar, Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar, September 18, 2006 [concluding that Canadian officials did not play a role in the US decision to detain...

Canada's Arar Commission , the official judicial inquiry into the circumstances under which Canadian Maher Arar was detained in the US in 2002 and removed to Syria where Arar says he was tortured, concluded...