The European Commission is urging the 25 European Union member states to implement compatible criminal law procedures in the wake of a study showing drastically different legal practices. While the study conducted...

Under pressure from the United States, the Israeli Cabinet led by Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has decided to allow Palestinians to vote in Jerusalem during the January 25 Palestinian parliamentary elections so long as...

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) Sunday promised a thorough congressional probe into President Bush's domestic surveillance program . Specter denied that the President was given a "blank check" to conduct any...

US Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) warned Sunday against any filibuster by Democrats to stall the vote for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito . Feinstein plans to vote...

President Bush's "faith-based initiative" to get taxpayer funding to religious organizations to provide social services suffered a setback Friday when a three-judge panel of the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a 2004 lawsuit brought by...

The government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair will in a few weeks lift a longstanding ban on wiretapping the phones of members of parliament as part of a push to expand the surveillance powers of Britain's MI5 [official...

Iraqi officials are attempting to persuade the chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial to remain in his position, according to prosecutors speaking Sunday. A tribunal official confirmed Saturday that Kurdish judge Rizgar Amin ...

Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said in a newspaper interview published Sunday that the Swiss government has asked the United States for information about 74 alleged CIA flights through Swiss airspace and several landings of CIA aircraft...

Two Iraqi journalists working for Reuters were among 509 prisoners released from US military custody Sunday. The journalists, one a correspondent and the other a cameraman, had been stationed in the Sunni-dominated insurgency stronghold of Ramadi, and were freed...

An official with the Iraqi tribunal trying Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity confirmed Saturday that chief judge Rizgar Amin has in fact submitted his resignation. The resignation was originally reported late Friday but was...