Proceedings in the Saddam Hussein trial continued Wednesday without the former president in the courtroom, after Hussein promised not to return to an "unjust court". There was a delay in proceedings Wednesday...

On the final day of Egypt's legislative elections , police beat back female voters with sticks when they tried to enter a blocked-off polling station in the Nasiriyah district of Zagazig, a stronghold of banned political group...

Bruce Gordon , president and chief executive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Tuesday urged that death row inmate and convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams ...

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was questioned Tuesday by Federal Judge Claudio Pavez, who is investigating the killing of an army colonel, Gerardo Hube, who has been linked to a 1992 illegal arms sale....

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Wednesday that the US has changed its policy on the interrogations of detainees, and will impose a worldwide ban on US personnel subjecting prisoners to cruelty, citing obligations under...

A letter from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have been instrumental in preventing the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society last month from making changes to the current control structure of the internet....

Addressing the Dutch Parliament Tuesday, Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot called assurances by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the US does not conduct renditions for torture "unsatisfactory." The Netherlands has been reported...

American Bar Association v. Federal Trade Commission, United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, December 6, 2005 [ruling that the Federal Trade Commission lacks statutory authority to compel lawyers to provide periodic notices of privacy to clients under...

Khaled el-Masri v. George J. Tenet et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, December 6, 2005 [complaint filed by the ACLU against former CIA Director George Tenet and other CIA officials on behalf of Khaled el-Masri,...

Wagnon v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Supreme Court of the United States, December 6, 2005, 7-2 majority opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas [holding that Kansas did not unconstitutionally impose a tax on distributors of fuel that was sold on an...