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...

International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei Thursday sought to delay an IAEA vote on a draft resolution offered by Britain, France and Germany and backed by the US that calls for Iran to be reported to...

The Oregon Supreme Court Thursday upheld an award of $79.5 million in punitive damages that a jury in 1999 directed Philip Morris USA to pay to relatives of an Oregon man who died of lung cancer...

In a close vote Thursday, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) beat out stand-in GOP chief Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) to win election as GOP House Majority Leader , vowing to move the party away from...

EU Justice Commissioner and European Commission Vice-President Franco Frattini intervened in the growing Islamic cartoons controversy Thursday, calling newspaper publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad "somewhat imprudent," while acknowledging that freedom of expression was a "'founding...