The European Commission Wednesday adopted a proposal for a directive setting EU-wide criminal penalties for counterfeiting and other intellectual property offenses. If adopted in legislation by the European Parliament , the directive requiring...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of a state's method of lethal injection under 42 USC 1983 even when all...

Supporters of ousted Philippines president Joseph Estrada protested Wednesday outside the Manila courthouse where he is being tried for corruption, a day after the country's Supreme Court ruled 13-0 that current President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's...

The US Senate Wednesday voted 59-39 to hold back $1.9 billion in funds requested by President Bush to support the Iraq war and instead put them towards increased border security, including the building of a security fence along the...

Recently-released US military tribunal hearing records and other documents indicate at that least seven prisoners at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay were transferred abroad to jurisdictions practicing torture before their arrival at the base,...

Proposed resolution for the European Parliament based on the interim report of the parliamentary commission on alleged CIA use of European countries for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners [Projet de rapport interimaire sur l'utilisation alléguée de pays européens...

The trial of six former high-ranking Bosnian Croat officials began Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . The defendants, including the former prime minister of the Croat region of Herceg-Bosna Jadranko...

The US Central Intelligence Agency has used extraordinary rendition to kidnap terror suspects in Europe and transfer them to countries known to use torture and has operated over 1,000 secret flights in European territory,...

US District Judge Donald Molloy has issued an injunction striking down three US Forest Service regulations that would have limited the public's ability to comment on proposed rules. The injunction came in response...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ordered US District Judge Leonie Brinkema to hold hearings on whether the National Security Agency used warrantless domestic wiretaps to...