An Amnesty International spokesman said Thursday in Berlin that torture was still practiced and legally recognized in Turkey despite the latest reform efforts of the Turkish government. Wolfgang Grenz made the statement at the presentation of...

Two separate reports issued in Britain Thursday strongly criticized the anti-terror strategy of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, documenting domestic deprivations of human rights, condemning UK policy on torture, and urging the government to press the US to shut...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has granted a rehearing in a case challenging the native-only admissions policy of a Hawaiian school. In August 2005, the Ninth Circuit ruled [PDF opinion;...

EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said Thursday that the European Union will suspend membership negotiations with Serbia if it did not fully cooperate in seeking the arrest of war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; BBC...

California faces a virtual moratorium on executions in the wake of a court ruling that medical professionals must monitor executions by lethal injection to be sure that the inmate feels no pain. The execution of condemned killer Michael Morales...

The US military should take a greater, perhaps sometimes even temporarily a leading role in disaster recovery, and policy steps should to be taken to facilitate this, according to a 228-page White House report [table of contents and full...

Fusako Shigenobu , founder of the terrorist group known as the Japanese Red Army (JRA) , was convicted in a Tokyo court Thursday and sentenced to twenty years in prison for kidnapping and attempted murder...

US District Judge Melinda Harmon has given preliminary approval to a $6.7 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by Enron shareholders, an attorney involved in the case said Wednesday. Shareholders brought...

The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday approved by a 23-12 vote a bill that would ban all abortions, excluding only those necessary to save a woman's life. A similar bill has already passed...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been named among possible target for UN Security Council sanctions being considered against high-ranking officials in the Sudanese government that are thought to be complicit in...