The Iraqi government intends to oust Blackwater USA , the private security firm involved in a September shooting incident , from its borders over the next six months, according to a report complied by Iraqi authorities and...
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said Monday that he plans to disband the Ecuadorean congress and rewrite the country's constitution . Correa's statement comes only a day after unofficial results in the...
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that the National Archives cannot rely on an executive order by President George W. Bush that...
Former US Army Reserve Staff Sergeant Ivan "Chip" Frederick was released on parole Monday from a military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was incarcerated for three years after pleading guilty to abusing prisoners...
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in 17 cases for the October Term 2007, among them notable cases dealing with lethal injection, voter ID laws and subsequently seized evidence....
The Iranian government ended the four-month detention of Iranian-American peace activist Ali Shakeri Monday, releasing him on bail in the amount of 1 million rials (approximately USD$110,000). Shakeri, a founding member of the University of California, Irvine,...
French Justice Minister Rachida Dati engaged in emergency discussions with senior members of the French judiciary on Monday to prevent a threatened judges' revolt. Objections have been raised to what some regard as...
Several inmates of a federal penitentiary in New York have filed a lawsuit challenging a decision by the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to remove religious and spiritual books from prison chapel libraries, according to the...
The US Supreme Court issued an order Monday that vacated a 2005 decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit striking down Missouri's 1999 "partial birth" abortion ban....
The United Kingdom cannot legally continue to provide political asylum to Russian billionaire and alleged coup plotter Boris Berezovsky and refuse to extradite him, the chairman of the Russian State Duma's Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Law...