Responding to a petition from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen , Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni reduced the jail term of opposition politician Cheam Channy from seven years to three, officials said Friday. Cheam Channy,...

Robert J. Stein , a former US Defense Department contract official for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of conspiracy, bribery, money laundering, unlawful possession of machine guns,...

US District Judge Deborah A. Batts on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit against former Environmental Protection Agency head Christine Todd Whitman , saying her reassurances about the air quality in New...

The US Senate late Thursday evening passed a one-month extension of the USA Patriot Act by a 95-1 vote . The extension until March 10 has already been approved by the US...

Tension over the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad flared into violence in Europe and across the Muslim world Thursday and Friday with members of the Front for Defenders of Islam (FPI) storming the...

A leaked memo reported in the UK Guardian newspaper Friday shows that Prime Minister Tony Blair had committed to US plans to invade Iraq well before seeking legal advice on the military action and any second...

A Russian military court has convicted a senior officer in the country's elite missile corps of modern-day slavery and contracting out conscripts under his command for personal gain. Deputy Commander Vladimir Kontonistov has been banned from...

Mayola William et al. v. Philip Morris Incorporated et al., Oregon Supreme Court, February 2, 2006 [upholding an award of $79.5 million in punitive damages that a jury in 1999 directed Philip Morris USA to pay to relatives of an...

UN ambassadors from Panama and South Africa Thursday circulated a draft compromise resolution in the UN General Assembly outlining provisions for a UN Human Rights Council to replace the current 53-member Commission on Human Rights...

Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti,the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School, and TransAfrica Forum, February 2, 2006 [alleging that...