Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr said Thursday that reports of abuse of detainees by Iraqi security forces were exaggerated. Jabr said that only five people discovered at a prison in an Interior Ministry building...

A court created by Sudan to try war-crimes suspects for atrocities committed in the Darfur region of the country has sentenced two soldiers to death for the killing of a Sudanese citizen. The...

An American businessman has been charged with paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to US authorities in charge of the reconstruction in Iraq to obtain millions in contracts, the New York Times reported Thursday. According...

US District Judge Rosemary Collyer on Wednesday held Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus in contempt after he failed to reveal confidential sources from a story he reported about an investigation into nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee [advocacy...

Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Inc., et al. v. Jeremiah M. Nixon, Attorney General of Missouri, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, November 16, 2006 [ordering the US District Court to...

The Italian Senate on Wednesday approved a constitutional amendment that grants increased powers to both the prime minister and to regional governments within Italy . Legislators approved the changes by a 170-132 vote,...

Letter supporting House legislation to split up the largest federal appeals court in the US, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which currently covers 54 million people and has 28 judgeships; US Department of Justice, November 14,...

Congressional Republicans on Wednesday said they planned to move forward with the Streamlined Procedures Act of 2005 , legislation aimed at speeding up executions in the US by limiting the number of appeals that can be made by...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a narrower version of a preliminary injunction imposed against Missouri's 24-hour informed consent abortion law . In a 2-1 decision ,...

The French Senate on Wednesday approved a three-month extension of emergency powers for local governments still struggling to control rioting around the country. The Senate's approval came a day after the...