Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that Parmalat can proceed with its lawsuit against Bank of America though he dismissed most...

A Canadian Federal Court judge has ruled that intelligence authorities must stop interrogating Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr . Justice Konrad von Finckenstein's decision also slammed Canadian counterterrorism agents for gathering information at...

Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that five men turned over to them by US authorities at Guantanamo have been released. No names were given, but an official said the five had completed the judicial process...

Protesters in cities across Asia Wednesday urged government officials in Japan to apologize for the actions of the Imperial Army and compensate women forced into sexual slavery in brothels run by the Japanese military before and during...

Despite answering questions before the Iraqi Special Tribunal in late June, former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz said Tuesday that he will not testify against Saddam Hussein [JURIST news...

Pakistan's chief election commissioner Abdul Hameed Dogar Wednesday promised to take swift and severe action against anyone prohibiting women from accessing polls in next week's local government elections. Dogar said he would go so far as to cancel results...

Public Advocate of the United States , a right-wing group based in Virginia, announced Wednesday that they would become the first conservative group to oppose the nomination of John Roberts to the US...

Russian Federal Prisons Service director Yuri Kalinin said Wednesday that the transfer of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to a larger cell with more inmates was "normal prison procedure" and not a form of punishment....

Britain's Conservative Party leader Michael Howard Wednesday joined an earlier call by former UK Home Secretary David Blunkett for the British courts not to interfere with Parliament's efforts to enact new anti-terrorism laws....

After his arrest in Buenos Aires earlier this week, Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic agreed Tuesday to be extradited and face new charges before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website; JURIST news...