A court in Indonesia Thursday convicted a fourth man of being involved in the October 2005 bombings of three restaurants in Bali which killed 26 civilians and injured over 100 people. The Denpasar district...
Netherlands Minister of Justice Piet Hein Donner Wednesday defended controversial comments he made during an interview suggesting that if a large majority of the Dutch people wanted to be ruled by Islamic law, then that couldn't be...
Amnesty International Thursday released a report accusing Hezbollah of violating international law by deliberately and indiscriminately killing Israeli civilians through its firing of rockets into Israel during the 34-day Middle East conflict . The...
The Role of Judges in a Modern Democracy, UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer Magna Carta Lecture, Sydney, Australia, September 13, 2006 . Read the full text of...
Valerie Plame, the undercover operative whose revealed identity precipitated the CIA leak case , and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, have now sued former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage for serving as the...
The US House Armed Services Committee approved its version of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 Wednesday, a bill that would permit the use of military commissions for terror detainees and...
A Jordan military court concluded two separate terrorism cases Wednesday, convicting a total of 10 suspected militants, including two fugitives in absentia, of charges stemming from alleged plots to kill Americans in Jordan . The court sentenced...
Two US congressmen on Wednesday filed a motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia requesting Judge Emmett Sullivan to order the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) ...
UK Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells called for the redefinition of "war crimes" in light of the recent Mideast conflict between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, during a Wednesday hearing of...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approved the National Security Surveillance Act of 2006 Wednesday, a bill that pushes forward Republicans' efforts to confer legal status on the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news...