Senate Democrats are calling for confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito to be held in 2006. According to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) , ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee,...

American lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan , who is currently representing six Bahraini men being held without charges at Guantanamo Bay , said Tuesday that prisoners at the US facility are becoming increasingly desperate. Colangelo-Bryan witnessed a suicide...

Outlining a $7.1 million plan to prepare for a possible bird flu epidemic , President Bush has asked Congress to devise a plan to provide liability protection for vaccine manufacturers. In his speech Tuesday, Bush...

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair won a narrow victory in the House of Commons Wednesday as his government warded off an amendment to its proposed counter-terrorism legislation by one vote. The government defeated a proposal...

A US federal appeals court has agreed to rehear the appeal of five accused Cuban spies , convicted of serving as unregistered agents of a foreign government and conspiracy to commit espionage. The decision to rehear the case...

New Japanese Minister of Justice Seiken Sugiura on Tuesday had to retreat from a statement he made earlier in the day indicating that he would not sign execution orders. Sugiura initially said that he would not sign...

A Pentagon official confirmed Tuesday that Omar al-Farouq, formerly one of Osama bin Laden's top aides until his capture in 2002, escaped from a US-run detention facility in Afghanistan in July with three other prisoners. His escape means he...

A new set of standards for handling detainees suspected of terrorism under US Department of Defense Directive 2310.1 has sparked internal debate within the Bush administration. The standards currently under development use language from the Geneva Conventions [ICRC...

Australia's proposed anti-terrorism laws were backed Wednesday by four of the country's state and territory leaders, ensuring that Prime Minister John Howard has enough support to introduce the proposals to the federal...

The trial of four former makers of lead paint and pigment, Millennium Holdings, Sherwin-Williams, Atlantic Richfield , and NL Industries , began in Rhode Island Tuesday. State lawyers have alleged that the four companies are responsible for a...