The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) at Guantanamo Bay were pressured to declare detainees "enemy combatants" based on vague or incomplete evidence, according to a Friday affidavit filed with a DC appeals court by a...
UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith announced Friday that he will resign his post effective next week. Goldsmith, who leaves just as Tony Blair steps down after 10 years as Prime Minister, said that...
European leaders continued to grapple Friday with disagreements over a proposed EU constitution treaty on the second day of the summit meeting in Brussels. Britain threatened to veto a watered-down version of...
Iran confirmed for the first time that it is detaining Iranian-American peace activist Ali Shakeri , the Iranian Students News Agency reported Friday. Shakeri, a founding member of the University of California, Irvine, Center for Citizen...
The White House has increased the size of its legal team to deal with continued requests from Democratic congressmembers investigating the US attorney scandal , prewar intelligence, and other questions, according to Friday reports. White House counsel...
Lawyers for former US vice-presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby asked a federal judge Thursday to delay Libby's prison sentence because they felt they have a good chance of winning an appeal of his...
Chile's chief prosecutor Thursday urged that former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori be extradited to Peru to face charges of corruption and human rights abuses, some arising from the 1992 Cantuta University massacre ...
The US House of Representatives passed two resolutions Tuesday intended to speed up the House's internal investigation of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) , who was indicted this week for allegedly accepting $500,000 in...
A US federal judge extended a temporary restraining order Tuesday, blocking the Texas town of Farmers Branch , a suburb of Dallas, from enforcing a law that would bar landlords from renting apartments to most...
Delegates from 68 countries wrapped up a three-day meeting in Lima, Peru Friday intended as a follow-up to the February Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions , where participants signed a declaration to ban...