The UN Human Rights Council announced Wednesday that it will hold an emergency session on Friday to discuss the ongoing Middle East conflict and its worsening impact on Lebanese citizens. Responding to a special...

The US military has arrested four Iraqi members of an insurgent kidnapping cell in connection with the kidnapping of Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll . Carroll was working in Iraq when she was kidnapped...

The Serbian government has called for the prosecution of Bosnian military officer Atif Dudakovic after a Serbian television station broadcast a video Tuesday that allegedly shows Dudakovic ordering his troops to burn a Serb village in 1995. The...

The Jakarta Court of Appeal has ruled that Indonesian Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh was correct to drop a corruption case against former President Suharto , citing Suharto's inability to speak or write due to permanent brain damage...

Captain Alex Pickands, a US military lawyer prosecuting four US Army soldiers for the March 12 rape of a 14-year old Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl and her family in Mahmudiya ,...

US District Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California on Tuesday temporarily stayed a class action lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T, pending the appeal ...

The American Bar Association approved a resolution Tuesday condemning President Bush for his "misuse" of bill signing statements to bypass particular provisions of a bill that the president considers unconstitutional or a...

Proposed amendments drafted by the Bush administration to revise the War Crimes Act would protect CIA officers, former military personnel and political appointees from prosecution for humiliating and degrading treatment of wartime detainees, according to a report in...

State of Nevada v. Department of Energy, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, August 8, 2006 [declining to review a US Department of Energy proposal to move nuclear waste to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository...

The Supreme Court of New Jersey on Tuesday ruled 5-1 that the state's Charitable Immunity Act , which protects non-profit organizations from ordinary negligence claims, permits plaintiffs to sue non-profits on sex...