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European Union justice and security ministers announced the adoption of a new anti-terror strategy and action plan at an EU Council meeting in Brussels Thursday. The UK-sponsored proposal is intended to fight radicalization and...

Jordan's King Abdullah II has urged the Jordanian parliament to quickly approve new anti-terrorism legislation, drafted two weeks ago in the wake of last month's hotel bombing that left 57 people dead. During...

The city of York, Pennsylvania, will pay a $2 million settlement to the relatives of a black woman shot to death during race riots in 1969. The two children and two sisters of Lilly Belle Allen will get a...

The final round of Egypt's legislative elections began Thursday, though riot police in some towns blocked access to polling stations in contradiction to government promises of free and fair elections. The cordoning-off of polling stations is thought to be...

A bombing at a Bangladesh court complex Thursday during a strike by lawyers in the country has wounded 25. The blast is the latest in a series of bombings outside courthouses and reportedly occurred near a...

US Lieutenant-General Martin Dempsey said Wednesday that he thought Iraqi commanders were responsible for recent cases of detainee torture by Iraqi security forces. Dempsey, who oversees the US program to train security forces in Iraq [JURIST news...

UK rights group Liberty has threatened to take legal action against the British government and senior police officers unless they agree to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated "torture...

Bangladesh police on Wednesday detained 22 suspects in the latest round of suicide bombings outside courthouses around the country. Nine people died and over 65 were wounded when two bombs detonated Tuesday, in what police and lawyers...

A federal court in Maryland has ruled that US law enforcement agents must obtain a warrant before obtaining information from a cell phone service on the location of a cell phone user. In an opinion written by...

France's National Assembly on Tuesday voted 373-27 in favor of a new anti-terrorism bill that will increase the use of video surveillance and allow police more time to question terror suspects. The...