A terror watch list designed to keep suspected terrorist from entering the United States through one of 324 points of entry is vague and ineffective, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General Richard Skinner [official...

Momcilo Mandic, the former Bosnian Serb justice minister in the wartime government under Radovan Karadzic , pleaded not guilty at the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday...

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Monday defended his proposal to subject the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program to review by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ,...

Native Americans participating in the ten-year-old Indian Trust case involving the alleged mismanagement of American Indian money by the US Department of the Interior have indicated they...

The UN Security Council on Monday called for renewed efforts to protect children in areas of armed conflict to build on progress in implementing Resolution 1612 , which requires international monitoring of children's rights...

Thailand's criminal court on Tuesday sentenced three members of the Election Commission of Thailand to four years in jail for violating election law in connection with arrangements for the April parliamentary election . The...

US Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) announced plans Monday to introduce legislation that will give Congress the power to file court challenges against presidential bill signing statements in order to have the signing...

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud accused Israel Monday of using incendiary phosphorous bombs against Lebanese civilians in violation of international standards, and urged the United Nations to call for an immediate ceasefire. Lahoud, considered...

"Your confessions are ready for you to sign": Detention and torture of political suspects in Jordan, Amnesty International, July 24, 2006 [identifying at least 10 suspected cases of alleged extraordinary rendition where detainees were removed from US custody and sent...

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a lawsuit Monday against the Bush administration, alleging that the US government failed to fulfill its obligations to protect US citizens in Lebanon when the...