Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday in an interview on Fox News Sunday that would support changing Senate procedures to ban judicial filibusters if Democrats attempt to use the device to block the US Supreme Coourt nomination of...

The Iraqi government announced Sunday that it will enforce strict security measures for Thursday's parliamentary elections, including closing all borders, extending curfews and banning travel across provincial boundaries from Tuesday through Saturday. Meanwhile, US-led coalition forces and the Iraqi...

The interim government of Haiti has removed five of its ten Supreme Court judges in what it called an “administrative measure, to improve the efficiency of the court.” Many speculate that the forced retirement of the...

Jose Padilla v. Commander C.T. Hanft, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, December 9, 2005 [US DOJ brief arguing that as Jose Padilla has been indicted on 11 criminal counts by civil authorities the case of his...

Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said Saturday in a television interview that he will order an investigation into reports that the CIA ran a secret detention facility in Poland. Allegations have been circulating in press reports and...

During his weekly radio address Saturday, President George W. Bush urged Congress to limit debate on the bill reauthorizing sections of the Patriot Act and vote soon on the compromise ...

Retired Croatian general Ante Gotovina , has been transferred to the detention facility of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) Saturday following his arrest in Spain Wednesday. According to the...

At a conference in New Delhi Saturday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) launched a new code of Customary International Humanitarian Law setting down universal and customary rules of combat...

Germany's new foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier Saturday denied allegations that German officials may have aided the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the December 2003 abduction of German citizen Khaled El-Masri , who...

The US said Friday that it would not allow the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) access to a limited number of detainees who are held in secret locations around the world. It...