The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court restricted the government's monitoring of e-mail and telephone conversations of suspected terrorists in foreign countries in a ruling publicly disclosed Thursday. According to US House Minority Leader John...
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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove refused to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday during the committee's seventh hearing on the Justice Department's firing of US Attorneys [JURIST news...
US District Judge Amy St. Eve ruled in Chicago Wednesday that Canadian-born financier and former media mogul Conrad Black may stay out on bail until his November 30 sentencing but denied a request to...
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Wednesday that Democrats are willing to expand government surveillance over foreign communications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) ,...
Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Khek Iev , also known as Duch, is willing to testify against other members of the Khmer Rouge, according to information released Wednesday by the tribunal that indicted Duch earlier...
The Iraqi Accordance Front , the largest Sunni parliamentary bloc, announced Wednesday that it was leaving the government and that the party's six Cabinet members would be turning in their resignations. The move is said to be a...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that the recently passed US House of Representatives resolution calling for a formal apology from Japan for forcing Asian women to become "comfort...
Nuradin Abdi, a Somali national accused of planning terror attacks on shopping malls in the US, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists Tuesday. Under the plea agreement ...
The Namibian human rights group National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) Tuesday said that it has asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate former Namibian President Sam Nujoma in connection with the...
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts was released from the hospital Tuesday after suffering a benign idiopathic seizure on Monday. In a phone conversation with President Bush earlier in the day, Roberts...
