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Zimbabwe prosecutors have dropped charges against six men accused of a plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe , according to lawyers involved in the case speaking Wednesday. Media reports originally indicated that eight men had been charged, but...

British police arrested five men on Wednesday for their suspected role in protests staged outside the Danish embassy in London on February 3 and 4 against the publication of Muhammad cartoons that first appeared in a...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) monitored gatherings organized by the Thomas Merton Center for Peace and Justice , an anti-war activist organization based in Pittsburgh, according to documents released Tuesday by...

Zimbabwe police Monday denied torture allegations by suspects arrested and charged with plotting to overthrow the government and assassinate Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe . Senior Assistant Commissioner Ronald Muderedzwa said only 11 people have been arrested...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said that despite widespread protests he remains committed to a proposed labor law that will make it easier for companies to fire workers under the age of 26. Villepin...

Eight people have been charged in Zimbabwe with plotting the assassination of President Robert Mugabe following the arrests of 15 suspects on Friday. Several members of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) [party...

JURIST Guest Columnist Neil Kinkopf of Georgia State University College of Law says that the broad interpretations of presidential power under statute being offered by defenders of the President's domestic surveillance program threaten to undercut the constitutional balance of power...

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic , on trial at The Hague for genocide and war crimes , has died suddenly, according to the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia . The cause of death...

Zimbabwean police have arrested 15 members of the opposition group Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after reportedly uncovering a collection of stockpiled weapons connected to the clandestine Zimbabwe Freedom Movement (ZFM) , a group established in 2003...

Human rights violations remain a problem in the United States, including illegal wiretapping, police abuse, wrongful convictions, and the world's highest ratio of people behind bars, according to a report released Thursday by China. The Human Rights Record of...