The chairman of one of Pakistan's two leading opposition groups said Sunday that his party would seek to reverse constitutional amendments unilaterally promulgated by President Pervez Musharraf in association with his lifting of emergency rule ...
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Participants in the United Nations Climate Change Conference agreed in Bali, Indonesia Saturday to a timetable for negotiating a new international treaty on global warming . Under the "Bali Roadmap" [PDF text; press...
Republican senators Friday blocked US Senate agreement to provisions in a House of Representatives intelligence funding bill passed Thursday limiting CIA interrogation methods by invoking a Senate rule against the late insertion of new language in legislation....
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Saturday lifted emergency rule over the country as anticipated , issuing an order reviving the suspended constitution, entrenching members of the country's post-emergency judiciary, and insulating actions taken under...
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday that the Department of Justice will not provide information to congressional officials regarding its ongoing probe into the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects. In a...
The UN Human Rights Council voted Friday to end the mandate of a group of seven human rights experts tasked with monitoring the rights situation in the Darfur region in Sudan. The council did,...
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Friday promulgated an order to amend the Pakistani constitution, allowing the president to declare a state of emergency without parliamentary ratification and providing that any judge who has...
Jean-Marie Le Pen , leader of France's far-right National Front party , went on trial Friday for "complicity in contesting crimes against humanity and complicity in justifying war crimes." The charges stem from Le Pen's...
The UK parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) Friday issued a report opposing a proposal by the government to extend the time limit on detaining terror suspects from 28 to 42 days....
A court in Chad has set December 21 as the trial date for six French nationals connected with the abortive effort by French charity Zoe's Ark to airlift so-called "Darfur orphans" out of...
