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National Air Traffic Services , the UK's air traffic control provider, have reported that three CIA flights possibly involved in rendition landed at British airports and received assistance from UK air traffic control since 2001. The admission by...

JURIST Guest Columnist Bernard Freamon of Seton Hall University Law School says that Danish prosecutors should revisit their decision not to charge the Danish newspaper editors responsible for the initial printing of the satirical Muhammad cartoons before the worldwide violence...

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that decisions by the Republican leaders of two congressional committees not to launch probes into warrantless NSA surveillance of Americans contrary to FISA, the Foreign Intelligence...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Brian Concannon Jr., Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, says that the negotiated deal over the counting of disputed ballots which has made Rene Preval the president-elect of Haiti has correctly put...

The UK Daily Telegraph has said that it will drop any further appeals in its legal battle with British MP George Galloway . In January, the Telegraph lost its appeal when a British appeals...

The number of detainees still on hunger strike at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay has dropped to four, military officials said Wednesday. The head military spokesman at Guantanamo also said that prison...

American and European officials meeting in Munich Sunday at the annual Conference on Security Policy criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for backsliding on his protection of human rights. US Senator John McCain went...

Canadian Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said Friday in response to suggestions that the Canadian Parliament should be given a more active role in the high court appointment process that it should remain the same. McLachlin...

The Bush administration has declined requests from the US Senate Judiciary Committee to produce classified legal opinions on the NSA's domestic spying program for a hearing scheduled for Monday . The...

JURIST Guest Columnist Valerie Vollmar of Willamette University College of Law says that the recent US Supreme Court ruling upholding Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law is a major step towards ensuring dignified choices to terminally ill Oregonians... On January 17, 2006,...