A group of 12 retired federal judges on Thursday urged US lawmakers not to pass legislation that would strip federal courts of the power to hear habeas corpus claims brought by detainees held at the US...

The US State Department confirmed Thursday that the International Committee of the Red Cross does not have access to all US detainees, but said that ICRC had access to "absolutely everybody" held at Guantanamo Bay...

US House and Senate negotiators announced Thursday that a deal has been reached on legislation that will reauthorize portions of the USA PATRIOT Act set to expire on December 31....

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on Thursday proposed a sweeping national ban on handguns in an effort to combat escalating gun violence in Canadian cities. In Toronto, there have been 50 homicides from gunfire this...

Retired Croatian general Ante Gotovina was arrested late Wednesday night in Spain. Gotovina was indicted on crimes against humanity charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2001 and...

Leaders in the US House and Senate are still working to reach a compromise on legislation that would reauthorize portions of the USA PATRIOT Act which are set to expire at the...

Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith, an officer in Britain's Royal Air Force , will face a court-martial next year on five counts of disobeying a lawful command and could be jailed for refusing to serve in Iraq. Earlier this...

US District Judge Shirley Wohl Kram has dismissed several lawsuits that sought to block reparations for Austrian Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Last month, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that...

The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) , representing Inuit indigenous peoples in Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia, has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US government...

A and others v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, UK House of Lords, December 8, 2005 . Read the full text of...