The International Federation for Human Rights and the League of Human Rights have filed a lawsuit in French court seeking more information about whether the US Central Intelligence Agency operated prisoner rendition ...
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An attorney for John Walker Lindh , the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, said Tuesday that Lindh has again asked President Bush to commute his 20-year prison sentence . Lindh was sentenced...
AP is reporting that the US Senate has rejected a proposal to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. The proposal was included as part of the 2006 military spending bill [bill...
Congo's Information Minister Henri Mova-Sakanyi said Tuesday that the country is reassessing the damages it will request from Uganda following an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Uganda violated the Congo's sovereignty during a...
AP is reporting that Saddam Hussein has claimed in trial proceedings Wednesday in Baghdad that he has been beaten "everywhere on my body" while in detention. Hussein's allegations came during an extended outburst during proceedings [JURIST...
A day after the first democratically elected parliament in 30 years in Afghanistan held its inaugural session , proceedings in the national assembly nearly broke down Tuesday after a delegate called for all of the...
The US Senate is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) . Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) has added the measure to the 2006 military...
US District Judge James Robertson , one of 11 members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) , has resigned in protest over the National Security Agency's secret domestic surveillance program , according to a report...
The Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad Wednesday, with the former ruler ending his boycott of court proceedings . The Iraqi High Criminal Court (formerly the Iraqi Special Tribunal ) heard testimony from its...
A UK High Court judge ruled Tuesday that Military Families Against the War (MFAW) and the Stop the War Coalition , representing British families of soldiers killed in Iraq, cannot challenge the government's refusal to hold a public...
