A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has claimed that agents supporting Saddam Hussein murdered two defense lawyers involved in the trial of the former Iraqi president and eight co-defendants...
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Final certified results of the September 18 Afghan election for the Wolesi Jirga (lower-house of parliament) and councils in all 34 provinces were released Saturday. Among those elected were three former members of the deposed...
Beatrice B. McWaters et al. v. Federal Emergency Management Agency, US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, November 10, 2005 [lawsuit seeking class action status accusing FEMA of wrongfully denying plaintiffs temporary housing and seeking declaratory and injunctive...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Saturday criticised Syria for its "arbitrary detention" of human rights activists "including Kamal Labwani and all the prisoners of conscience from the Damascus Spring" during a...
Former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma was formally indicted by a Durban magistrate court Saturday on corruption charges stemming from his relationship with his financial advisor Schabir Shaik who was sentenced in June to...
Attorneys acting on behalf of over a dozen Hurricane Katrina disaster victims have filed a complaint seeking class action status against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other government agencies. The...
Serbian Defense Minister Zoran Stankovic said Friday on Serbian state television that Theodor Meron, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , had threatened Serbia with "excommunicat from Euro-Atlantic integration" if...
The US Senate may reconsider Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts to contest their detentions as early as next week, according to negotiators on the issue. Sen. Jeff...
Thousands of Paris police officers are enforcing a new ban on public rallies in the French capital "likely to start or fuel disorder" declared under emergency powers granted to local authorities in the wake of widespread rioting...
Colombia's Constitutional Court on Friday voted 7-2 to approve the country's new Electoral Guarantees Law, establishing clear rules to prevent incumbent presidents who run for re-election from exploiting their power for political gain. The announcement follows last...
