Niger authorities charged two French journalists with threatening state security Wednesday, alleging that the journalists attempted to report on rebel groups in the country's volatile north region. The West African country has been in a state of...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called for the government of Turkey to lift a ban on women wearing headscarves in universities and public offices, urging the government not to wait for a...
John Rizzo, the acting general counsel of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) , said Wednesday that the former head of the clandestine branch of the CIA Jose Rodriguez ordered the destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of...
Robert L. Pugh et al. v. Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, United Ststes District Court for the District of Columbia, January 15, 2008 [ruling that the Libyan government and six Libyan officials should pay more than $6 billion in damages...
New York State Board of elections et al. v. Lopez Torres et al., US Supreme Court, January 16, 2008 . Read the full...
US v. Islamic American Relief Agency et al., United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, January 16, 2008 [indicting Mark Deli Siljander, a former Republican US congressman from Michigan and US representative to the United Nations, for...
The number of political prisoners in Cuba has decreased from 283 at the end of 2006 to to 234 at the end of 2007, but human rights abuses continue in the communist Caribbean state, according to the...
Declaration of Theresa Payton, filed in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, v. Executive Office of the President, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, January 15, 2008 [statement of the Chief Information Officer in the...
Mark Deli Siljander , a former Republican US congressman from Michigan and US representative to the United Nations, was indicted Wednesday for conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering, obstruction of justice,...
Spanish National Court judge Santiago Pedraz said Wednesday he will switch the focus of his investigation into genocide, torture, and other crimes against humanity in Guatemala's 36-year civil war towards obtaining witness testimony in light...