A new memo may contradict previous denials by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that he played no role in the awarding of an oil contract in Iraq to a company his son worked for. Annan was cleared of any wrongdoing...

The Pakistani government said Wednesday that gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai has been removed from a no-travel list and is free to go abroad. In a case that has received international attention, Mai was gang-raped on...

US House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-WI) said Tuesday that while he thinks that many of the temporary provisions of the Patriot Act should be made permanent, federal investigators should not be...

Despite earlier reports to the contrary, Sudan refused on Wednesday to drop charges against two members of Medecins Sans Frontieres . The two had been arrested and investigated for allegedly "spying, publishing false...

In an effort to highlight human rights abuses in certain countries, President Bush has begun meeting with dissidents in an approach similar to the one taken by former President Ronald Reagan in his meetings with Soviet dissidents during the...

Spain announced on Wednesday the arrest of 16 suspected Islamic militants, including 11 fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and men training to carry out suicide attacks in Iraq. A statement from the...

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter opens hearings Wednesday on the legal rights of detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay. Part of the agenda for the hearings is to examine the due...

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld briefing on the military detention center at Guanatanamo Bay and other subjects, June 14, 2005 [saying that the US government had gone to great length and enormous expense to ensure that terror detainees at...

Lewis, et al. v. Harris, et al., Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, June 14, 2005 . Excerpt:The issue presented by this appeal...

Review of the Terrorist Screening Center, US Department of Justice, June 13, 2005 [finding that the terrorist watch list co-ordinated by the US government's Terrorism Screening Center is missing some names and is mischaracterizing the danger posed by nearly 32,000...