A four-member Iraqi judiciary committee has dismissed terrorism-related charges against Associated Press (AP) photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered his release. Hussein has been held by the US military since his arrest in...
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Five prominent members of the Hindu Rights Action Force who are being detained in Malaysia "have been deprived of their personal liberty in defiance of the law," a defense lawyer argued at a Wednesday Federal...
Negotiations on a new international treaty to combat global warming began Monday in Bangkok. The week-long negotiations, part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) , are intended...
The Greek Ministry of Justice has agreed to establish a working group to analyze the potential impact of recognizing same-sex civil marriages in Greece, according to Monday media reports. The move comes after the Greek...
The Bush administration has filed an appeal of a ruling by a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit invalidating new less-stringent mercury emissions rules issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Riley v. Kennedy , 07-77, a voting rights case where the Court is considering whether the state of Alabama...
US District Judge David Lawson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Tuesday dismissed with prejudice a constitutional challenge to Proposal 2 , an amendment to the Michigan...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Philippines v. Pimentel , 06-1204 , where the Court considered whether some 9,000 plaintiffs seeking to recover assets...
Prosecutors in Venezuela have ordered former Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi to appear in court in connection with the killings of nine leftist students in the western Venezuelan town of Yumare in 1986....
Judge Thelton Henderson of the US District Court for the Northern District of California told the Sacramento Bee Saturday he was "hopeful" that a court battle between the state of California and inmate advocacy groups...
