A Connecticut Superior Court on Tuesday began hearing a lawsuit brought by eight same-sex couples who claim that the state's marriage law is unconstitutional because it treats heterosexual couples differently than same-sex couples by defining marriage as...

Approximately 100 opposition activists in Belarus have been detained for protesting the country's presidential elections over the weekend, which locked in a third term for Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko , a lawyer for...

A new report issued Tuesday by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe says that a resurgence in Serb nationalism evident after the death in detention of ex-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic makes it...

A Sri Lankan man seeking asylum in the US is expected to be released shortly after being held in prison for four years. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordered the release of Ahilan...

A military jury has found US Army Sgt. Michael J. Smith guilty on six counts of abusing detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison for using his unmuzzled dog to intimidate inmates. Smith was found guilty of...

Eighty-five year old Algimantas Dailide, a retired real estate broker from the Cleveland area who was deported from the United States in 2003 for lying about his past, went on trial Monday in his native Lithuania, charged with helping...

Canadian citizen Allen Abney, arrested earlier this month at a US border crossing for deserting the US Marine Corps in the Vietnam war, said Monday at his first public appearance since his release ...

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that anticipatory warrants executed at some point in the future are allowed under the Fourth Amendment . In US v. Grubbs...

A former Australian federal judge has offered scathing criticism on the country's newly approved anti-terror laws , saying the measures could lead to the growth of a police state. Former federal court Judge Marcus Einfeld ...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, a Spanish judge has issued an indictment against 32 Islamic militants for an alleged attempt to set off explosives at Spain's National Court (Audiencia Nacional governing statute), the heart of its judicial anti-terror activities. Most...