The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday that it will continue to move forward with implementation of the REAL ID Act , despite opposition among state legislatures and in the US...
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Human rights activist Umida Niyazova received a suspended sentence on Tuesday after reading a confession and expressing regret for "the crimes committed unintentionally." The Uzbek appeals court reduced the seven-year sentence she received last week after...
Six Islamic militants have been arrested for allegedly planning an attack on New Jersey military base Fort Dix , the US Attorney for New Jersey said Tuesday. The men, who have been under surveillance for...
Canadian Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley refused to require the release of confidential evidence against alleged terrorist Mohammed Momin Khawaja on Monday, saying "that disclosure of most of the information would be injurious...
A New Orleans court suspended the criminal trials of 98 indigent defendants Monday, 20 of whom were released from prison. Judge Arthur Hunter of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court told the defendants that...
The US may attempt to force the establishment of a UN tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told [AA report, in...
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday that a report from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom that accused China of imprisoning and torturing people based on their religion was ignorant and prejudiced. In a...
The twenty-sixth sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) opened in Bonn, Germany, on Monday, as hundreds...
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has neglected to censure countries committing gross violations of human rights, including Cuba, Saudi Arabia and China, according to a report released Monday by rights watchdog group UN Watch...
The two Cuban soldiers who last week killed an army officer while attempting to hijack a plane to flee the island were encouraged to do so by last month's US release of anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles...
