The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board created by the US Congress in December 2004 implementing a recommendation from the 9/11 Commission will finally begin to function later this month when the Board's five members...

Lawmakers on Sunday urged an overhaul of the US government investment review process that approved the takeover by United Arab Emirates-owned Dubai Ports World of operating rights at several United States ports. The current process...

A new report from Amnesty International (AI) concludes that the arbitrary detention of thousands of people in Iraq facilitates abuses of prisoners. Using official figures from the Multi-National Force in Iraq , AI...

In a speech to the East Tennessee Economic Council, US National Nuclear Security Administration head Linton Brooks , has publicly acknowledged for the first time the Bush administration's intent to abandon "nuclear disarmament." Brooks said...

The Sudanese government has threatened to withdraw from the African Union (AU) if a proposed takeover of the AU's peacekeeping mission in the Darfur region by the United Nations goes into effect....

Leaders of the both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches have sharply criticized the US prison at Guantanamo Bay as international pressure builds to close down the controversial facility that currently contains almost 500 individuals the...

US District Judge John Gleeson Friday temporarily stayed an injunction that would have changed New York's unique system of nominating its elected state trial court judges in political conventions rather than...

Parts of a broader, more human picture of the Guantanamo detainees, their frustrations and the cases against them have begun to emerge from the depths of over 5000 pages of documentation on over 300 specific detainees released...

Two separate press-sponsored investigations reported Saturday show a marked increase in secret proceedings in US federal courts in the last few years, mirroring a general trend towards secrecy in the executive branch of government during the Bush presidency. Figures...

The Manila Daily Tribune reported Saturday that it has been charged with sedition in the wake of the Friday lifting of President Gloria Arroyo's state of emergency . The offices of the paper,...