Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Shaker Aamer , a UK resident held by the US since 2002, filed a motion in federal district court Monday seeking Aamer's release from solitary confinement,...
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Iraq's National Assembly on Tuesday again postponed debate on a draft federalism bill that would allow Iraq's 18 provinces to form strong governments with their own security forces. Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said Tuesday that...
The trial of Simon Bikindi began Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda with prosecutors accusing the popular singer of "us his fame to incite hatred" during the 1994 Rwandan...
Canada's Arar Commission , the official judicial inquiry into the circumstances under which Canadian Maher Arar was detained in the US in 2002 and removed to Syria where Arar says he was tortured, concluded...
A lawyer for Momin Khawaja , the first person charged under Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act , urged an Ontario Superior Court judge Tuesday to strike down the anti-terror legislation because it is unconstitutionally vague and...
US Senators John Warner (R-VA), John McCain (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday circulated a revised draft of a bill that would establish military commissions for terror detainees. Although the draft is closer...
An Indian court Tuesday convicted four people - all members of the same family - of conspiracy and aiding a terrorist act in the 1993 Mumbai bombings , a series of attacks which killed 257 people and injured...
US District Judge Roslyn Silver on Monday refused to prevent enforcement of an Arizona law requiring voters to show a government-issued photo ID or two non-photo forms of identification before casting a ballot. The measure,...
The European Court of Justice Tuesday upheld a UK law that extends the right to vote in European Parliament elections to residents of Gibraltar , the tiny British...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Monday charged freelance Croatian journalist Domagoj Margetic with contempt of court for posting the names of two protected witnesses on his website. Margetic is accused of...
