Former US Rep. Bob Barr on Thursday filed a complaint on behalf of Georgia firearms dealer Adventure Outdoors in a Georgia state court alleging that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg violated state...

A lawyer for Tariq Aziz , former deputy prime minister and foreign minister for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has filed a habeas corpus petition with the US Supreme Court , seeking...

Responding to recent controversy over UK sentencing guidelines and following up on a major June policy address by Prime Minister Tony Blair, Home Secretary John Reid on Thursday released a criminal justice system...

Paul Hunt, the UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health, has called for an independent inquiry into war crimes in Gaza, saying that some Israeli attacks on Gaza are a...

Amnesty International (AI) took Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo! to task for "Undermining Freedom of Expression in China" as part of a campaign, launched Thursday, to "combat internet oppression" worldwide. The report...

Nicolo Pollari, chief of the Italian Intelligence and Security Services , told a closed door meeting of the Italian Senate defense committee that Italian intelligence was not involved in the alleged CIA extraordinary rendition of...

Prosecutors in East Timor questioned former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri Thursday about allegations that he illegally distributed weapons to local militias and ordered them to kill political opponents. An investigation began after Vincent "Railos"...

During an uncommon open session of the US House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, several legal heavyweights debated whether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) should be revamped to meet the challenges presented by terrorism. Under...

Relatives of four Iraqi citizens who were allegedly murdered by US soldiers in the town of Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") are refusing US requests to exhume the bodies, complicating the US case against the six soldiers. No...

A federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted two US citizens charged with participating in paramilitary training in Georgia in anticipation of terrorist acts. The suspects, Syed Haris Ahmed and Ebsanul Islam Sadequeee, allegedly developed contacts...