Respect for human rights in Asia has been on a serious decline over the past year, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch . HRW says that the governments of some Asian countries, including Nepal,...

A federal district judge on Tuesday approved the settlement of a lawsuit and authorized the city of New Orleans to continue demolition of homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina , so long as homeowners are given advance notice....

Russia is considering a request by former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic that he travel to that country for medical treatment, the Russian foreign ministry announced Wednesday. In December, Milosevic asked the judges...

France, Britain and Germany circulated a draft resolution on Iran among key members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday calling for a referral to the UN Security Council. The resolution, if accepted by the...

In response to mounting criticism of the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program , White House spokesman Scott McClellan on Tuesday took time during his daily press briefing to react to the two lawsuits filed...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Wednesday, including a decision in Will v. Hallock , where the Court ruled that a refusal to apply the judgment bar in the Federal...

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider the constitutionality of a New Hampshire abortion law. In a unanimous decision in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England [Duke...

A New Orleans judge said Tuesday that criminal trials in New Orleans could resume by March when the courts will try to deal with the 3,000 trials pending before Hurricane Katrina swept through the...

News agencies in Italy reported Tuesday that Italian prosecutors plan to charge a US soldier with murdering Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari and the attempted murder of an Italian journalist during a shooting at a US checkpoint in...

Switzerland's foreign affairs committee on Tuesday voted against denouncing the United States over purported secret CIA prisons in Europe for terror suspects after members concluded they lacked sufficient evidence. Committee head Luzi Stamm told reporters that...