Following US Senate passage of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 on Thursday, observers suggested Friday that President Bush is likely to play an important role in reconciling the Senate plan with...

The Court of Appeal in London Friday refused to grant a stay of extradition to Farid Hilali, an alleged UK contact for the September 11 hijackers who is being deported to Spain to face terrorism charges for...

A court in Moscow on Friday upheld a ban on an international gay pride parade scheduled to take place in the Russian capital on Saturday after gay activists appealed the decision of Moscow Mayor Yuri...

A Russian judge Friday found Nurpashi Kulayev guilty of all charges for his role in the September 2004 Beslan school siege , sentencing him to life in prison. Kulayev was charged with...

The UK Parliament Joint Committee on Human Rights took the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair to task Friday for urging the European Court of Human Rights to revisit its absolute prohibition against...

The Belarus Ministry of Justice has asked the Belarus Supreme Court to close down the Belarus Helsinki Committee , a leading human rights group that has consistently criticized the authoritarian government of President Alexander Lukashenko [official...

As the British Ministry of Defence continues investigating the deaths of several Iraqi detainees in British military custody , a military tribunal judge on Thursday found a British soldier not guilty of manslaughter for allegedly forcing...

The full US Senate has approved the nomination of Air Force General Michael Hayden to head the Central Intelligence Agency by a vote of 78-15 . Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) was...

The US Senate on Friday confirmed the nomination of White House staffer Brett Kavanaugh to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by a margin of 57-36 after a test vote...

Mexican President Vicente Fox on Thursday applauded the US Senate's approval of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 that would tighten border security and allow illegal immigrants to follow a...