Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said Tuesday that martial law will not be lifted in Thailand, as had been anticipated . Thai Defense Minister Boonrawd Somtas said last week that Surayud was...
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has agreed to investigate allegations that government forces and the rebel group Karuna has been using children in its fights against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...
US Marine Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr. will plead guilty to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection to the alleged murder and kidnapping of an unarmed Iraqi civilian in Hamdania ,...
City council members in Farmers Branch, Texas voted Monday to approve several anti-immigration measures including making English the town's official language , imposing fines for landlords who rent to illegal aliens [Ordinance No. 2892...
Prosecutors for the US government Monday denied allegations by Jose Padilla that he was tortured while in US custody at a Navy detention facility in South Carolina. Padilla claims that he was subjected to...
The US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Monday upheld an Ohio regulation requiring a women to meet with a doctor 24 hours prior to an abortion procedure but reversed a District Court ruling ...
The US Supreme Court Monday denied an application by US citizen Mohammad Munaf for a temporary injunction postponing his transfer to Iraqi custody where he faces the death...
Ayers v. Belmontes, Supreme Court of the United States, November 13, 2006 . Read the court's opinion per Justice Kennedy,...
Russia may effectively extend a death penalty moratorium for three years if the State Duma passes a bill shifting the deadline for introducing jury trials in Chechnya from...
The head of the independent Human Rights Moroccan Center announced plans Monday to appeal a Moroccan court's conviction of three former Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of involvement in terrorism. Khaled al Charkaoui expressed surprise...