An Israeli military court Tuesday ordered the release of 21 Palestinian lawmakers, including three cabinet ministers, who were detained following the Hamas capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit in Gaza in June. Prosecutors are appealing...
International human rights groups have denounced China's release of new media regulations governing the domestic release of news and information by foreign news agencies. The regulations, which give China's official Xinhua News Agency ultimate rights of...
US District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Canadian oil and gas producer Talisman Energy aided genocide in order to access oil...
A Kurdish witness testifying Tuesday in the resumed genocide trial of Saddam Hussein described how Iraqi troops bombed his village outside the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya in 1988 and of how he fled to...
British prosecutors have charged Yassin Mutegombwa with receiving training for terrorism, making him the first person in the UK charged with the new offense under the recently enacted Terrorism Act 2006 . Mutegombwa was one of 14 suspects arrested...
US Senators John Warner (R-VA), John McCain (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday circulated a revised draft of a bill that would establish military commissions for terror detainees. Although the draft is closer...
An Indian court Tuesday convicted four people - all members of the same family - of conspiracy and aiding a terrorist act in the 1993 Mumbai bombings , a series of attacks which killed 257 people and injured...
US District Judge Roslyn Silver on Monday refused to prevent enforcement of an Arizona law requiring voters to show a government-issued photo ID or two non-photo forms of identification before casting a ballot. The measure,...
The European Court of Justice Tuesday upheld a UK law that extends the right to vote in European Parliament elections to residents of Gibraltar , the tiny British...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Monday charged freelance Croatian journalist Domagoj Margetic with contempt of court for posting the names of two protected witnesses on his website. Margetic is accused of...