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The Virginia co-ordinator of Ralph Nader's 2004 presidential campaign pleaded guilty to charges of election fraud on Tuesday. James Polk will serve 30 days of house detention and pay a $2500 fine for attempting to put Nader...

To head off a revolt among members of his government over what are increasingly seen as unduly-harsh immigration laws, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has loosened rules for mandatory detention of immigrants who enter the country without...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has announced a halt to the current nationwide police crackdown against illegal and black market merchants and unauthorized dwellings that has allegedly resulted in the eviction and/or...

Leading Thursday's international brief, government lawyers for the Royal Commission for Corruption Control have begun arguments before the commission in the case against former Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba , former Foreign Minister Prakash Man Singh and...

Thierry Fagart, human rights head of the UN stabilization mission in Haiti , has called the 10-month detention of former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune without an appearance before a judge illegal under the Haitian constitution...

In Thursday's environmental law brief, a Jakarta Indonesia court has ruled that the travel ban on the six Newmont Mining Co. executives that has been in place since last October is illegal. Despite the ruling, the executives...

The United Nations' Commission on Human Rights began its annual six-week session on Monday. This year's meeting may produce significant criticism of human rights abuses committed by the US against prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. Activist groups,...

A Bosnian court Friday acquitted eleven Serb policeman who had been linked to the murders of a Catholic priest and his parents during the Balkan conflict of the 1990s. Tomislav Matanovic and his parents disappeared in 1995 and their...

More than 200 foreign nationals currently being detained in US immigration facilities could be released under a recent Supreme Court ruling according to figures released Monday by Cheryl Little , executive director of the Florida...

Michael Chertoff , President Bush's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security faced repeated questions Wednesday from Democrats at his Senate confirmation hearing about any role he might have played while at the Justice...