The National Council for Human Rights, sponsored by the Egyptian government, on Thursday called for an investigation into the 11 deaths that occurred during the most recent round of parliamentary elections that ended in December. The...
AP is reporting that law enforcement officials have said that Jose Padilla has been transferred from military to civilian custody in order to face terror charges in Miami. The transfer, previously delayed ...
Lord Paddy Ashdown , the EU High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina on Thursday confiscated funds from the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) because its founder and wanted war crimes criminal Radovan Karadzic remains a fugitive. In...
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday held that the state's 1999 school voucher law violates the state constitutional requirement of a uniform system of free public schools. The Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) , which was...
A suspected Bosnian Serb war criminal was captured by European Union EUFOR peacekeeping troops on Thursday in a firefight at the suspect's home. Dragomir Abazovic and his 12-year-old son were shot and injured , while his...
US Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-MI) has said that the Bush administration cannot use recent legislation in an attempt to dismiss already filed habeas corpus petitions of Guantanamo Bay detainees . The 2006...
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a warning on Thursday that the US is considering referring Iran to the UN Security Council if it continues its plans to resume nuclear fuel...
A British judge on Thursday said that Haroon Rashid Aswat , a British citizen wanted in the US on suspicion of setting up a terrorist training camp, could be extradited to the United States. Aswat was arrested in...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Thursday called for the full respect for international humanitarian and human rights law in the ongoing conflict in Nepal . Last...
Three leading Republican senators, John W. Warner (R-VA) , John McCain (R-AZ) , and Lindsey O. Graham (R-SC) , on Wednesday condemned President Bush's statement that he can bypass the newly-passed ban on torture...