Australian state leaders warned Thursday that "shoot-to-kill" provisions in the country's anti-terrorism proposals could lead to another wrongful police shooting similar to the one by British officers who incorrectly identified a Brazilian citizen as a...
Australia is urging the UN Security Council to put Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against his own people. Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer ...
President Bush's "faith-based initiative" to get taxpayer funding to religious charities won a legal victory recently when a US federal judge ruled that religious groups are able to hire and fire employees based on their religious beliefs and practices,...
Recently fired Ukrainian Prosecutor General Svyatoslav Piskun is claiming his termination last month was a direct result of an investigation he launched into the expenditures of the wife of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko . Piskun was looking into...
US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers has said that she will provide more details to the Senate Judiciary Committee after Republican and Democratic committee leaders requested that Miers resubmit her answers to a judicial...
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser Wednesday voiced his strong opposition to new anti-terrorism proposals from current Prime Minister John Howard , which were leaked by an Australian state leader...
Australia has disputed suggestions by the US Department of Defense that the four years terror suspect David Hicks has been detained at Guantanamo Bay should not count toward any...
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed half of a whistleblower suit filed by former US Attorney Richard Convertino, who alleged that he was retaliated against after cooperating with a US Senate investigation into the failed...
The US House of Representatives is expected on Thursday to approve a bill that will block various civil lawsuits filed against US gun manufacturers. Both Republicans and Democrats predicted that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms...
The Malawi parliament has adopted procedures for the impeachment of the country's president, who has been accused of misusing state funds and violating the country's constitution. Legislators approved the procedures late Tuesday in a...