A US federal judge in California has ruled that the state must change the drugs it uses when executing prisoners, because the current method may constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment. US...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has deplored media repression in over 50 countries in its latest annual report . Highlighting unprecedented violence against reporters in the Middle East, it also condemned legal sanctions such as imprisonment and...

Government officials in Haiti have announced plans to form a commission to review the contested results of that country's February 7 election . The commission will be composed of members of the president's...

BBC News is reporting that the UK House of Commons has voted to include the glorification of terrorism as a criminal offense in the proposed Terrorism Bill , overturning the House of Lords on...

Germany's Federal Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that a law permitting the German air force to shoot down hijacked planes to prevent a suicide attack was unconstitutional ,...

The US government has formally requested the extradition from Canada of Canadian citizen Abdullah Khadr , a week after indicting him on charges of procuring weapons to...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Ugandan General Court Martial (GCM) Chairman Elly Tumwine has gone ahead with the trial of over 20 suspects accused of collaborating with Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye on charges of terrorism and...

Previously unpublished photographs and video depicting alleged abuse of prisoners by US personnel at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison were shown on Australian television Wednesday. In an effort to expose "the extent of the horror...

The number of alleged international terrorism suspects named in a centralized US database has more than quadrupled since the list's inception in 2003, according to a report in Wednesday's Washington Post. The list, compiled by the National Counterterrorism Center...

A Jordan military court on Wednesday sentenced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the alleged head of al Qaeda in Iraq, and eight other men to death for conspiring to attack several sites in Jordan with explosives and toxic chemicals....