US Army prosecutors said Wednesday they would be filing new charges against Mohammad al-Qahtani , a Saudi Arabian citizen being held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Al-Qahtani is known as the...
The UK House of Commons on Tuesday gave final approval to the Climate Change Bill , which requires the country to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the...
The Supreme Court of California on Wednesday agreed to hear challenges to Proposition 8 , the ballot measure that amended the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage, while refusing a petition to...
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Wednesday upheld a grant of summary judgment for the plaintiff by the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island in an...
Eight Somalis were charged in a Kenyan court for piracy on Wednesday after being turned over to Kenyan officials by the British Royal Navy . The suspected pirates were captured by the HMS Cumberland [official...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has vacated a district court judge's contempt order against former USA Today reporter Toni Locy in connection with...
A panel of UN experts on Wednesday urged authorities in Myanmar to retry political and religious prisoners. The group, including Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Public Health Officer Heiko Hering said Wednesday that the large-scale anti-malaria effort recently launched by the United Nations Foundation is part of fulfilling the service obligations of the Convention and Protocol...
Navy defense attorney Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier was given rare access on Wednesday to Camp Seven , a special Guantanamo camp for alleged al Qaeda members classified as "high-value detainees" at the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...
A judge for the Moscow District Military Court on Wednesday ordered that the trial of three men accused in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya be closed to the public. This essentially reversed his...