The UN Refugee Agency has criticized Australia for its strict policy of detaining illegal immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers, in comments before an Australian parliamentary inquiry. David Wright, a representative of the UN High...

The Indonesian government cannot ban Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) because the government never formally acknowledged the group's existence, Vice President Yusuf Kalla said Sunday. Australia has called on Indonesia to outlaw the group ,...

The US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky has ruled that the Holy See is a foreign state subject to immunity protections of the 1976 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act , placing limitations on...

Environmental Integrity Project v. Environmental Protection Agency, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, October 7, 2005 ....

Doe v. Gonzales, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, October 7, 2005 [rejecting an emergency appeal filed by the ACLU on behalf of Connecticut libraries seeking to overturn a gag order that prevents a library involved...

Twenty-one Sunni Arab organizations Saturday jointly condemned the proposed Iraqi constitution , saying in a statement that it “bears in it the germs of Iraq's division, the loss of its Arab identity and the plundering of its...

House Republicans said Friday they will resist a Senate amendment to a $445 million military appropriations bill that would require the US military to follow stricter rules when conducting detainee interrogations. The amendment, approved by...

US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Friday rejected an emergency appeal filed by the ACLU on behalf of Connecticut libraries seeking to overturn a gag order that prevents a library involved in...

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals Friday rejected a Bush administration interpretation of EPA requirements that weakened the EPA’s ability to monitor air pollution from industrial sources. The appeals court held that a 2004...

The White House issued a brief statement Friday withdrawing the nomination of corporate attorney Timothy Flanigan to be US Deputy Attorney General. Flanigan forwarded a letter to President Bush Friday requesting that the nomination be recalled, citing concerns...