The intergovernmental Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has urged US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to drop subpoenas against two journalists demanding that they name their sources to a grand jury investigating the leak of a...
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The son of late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , the architect of Canada's civil rights charter, denounced the Canadian government's controversial use of security certificates to indefinitely detain uncharged terror suspects in a court hearing...
Saddam Hussein's family has approached a leading London media lawyer about suing the Sun for publishing secretly-taken pictures of the former Iraqi leader in his underwear. Hussein's Iraqi lawyers also threatened to sue...
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said Tuesday he would begin discussions with Attorney General Rory Brady about bringing London before the European Court of Human Rights for failing to release files about car...
The government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair won a key vote in Parliament late Tuesday on the proposed national ID card plan , but its 66-seat majority was cut in...
US-born Israeli soldier Avi Bieber was sentenced to 56 days in jail Tuesday for refusing to participate in the evacuation of settlers from Gaza . Military officials said the stiff sentence is meant to send a message...
A new report by a UN Commission of Experts says Indonesia's efforts to examine atrocities committed in East Timor in 1999 was "manifestly inadequate" and show "scant respect for or conformity to relevant international standards,"...
Mexican lawmakers Tuesday approved a law permitting Mexicans living abroad to vote by mail in next July's presidential election. The lower house of Congress passed the measure 455 to 6, with 6 abstentions. The measure has already been passed...
Bill C-38, An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes, passed by Canada's House of Commons on June 28, 2005 . Excerpt:WHEREAS the Parliament of Canada is committed...
Lee v. Department of Justice, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, June 28, 2005 [ruling upholding civil contempt of court findings against four reporters unwilling to reveal their sources for articles about Los...
