David M. Hicks v. George W. Bush, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, November 14, 2005 [staying the military commission trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks until the US Supreme Court rules on...

Pentagon officials admitted Tuesday that US troops in Iraq used white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon against enemy combatants during a 2004 military assault on the insurgent-controlled city of Fallujah, but remained adamant that it...

Enron and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement Tuesday over allegations that Enron manipulated electricity supplies during the power crisis in California, Oregon, and Washington in 2000-01....

A US district judge has denied bail for former KPMG executive David Greenberg, a defendant in the largest criminal tax case in US history. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said Greenberg posed a substantial flight risk...

The Jordanian government said Tuesday that it is drafting tough new antiterrorism legislation that would allow suspected terrorists to be held indefinitely and, in very broad terms, would impose penalties on any individual who "would expose the...

Iraq’s government announced plans on Tuesday to investigate allegations that Iraqi security forces abused more than 170 prisoners held in central Baghdad, who were found malnourished and showing evidence of torture. Prompted by the repeated pleadings of a missing...

France's National Assembly , the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday voted to extend emergency powers originally granted for 12 days on November 8 to combat the civil unrest that started in late October....

Chief Lebanese investigative judge Elias Eid on Tuesday refused to release two former high ranking Lebanese military officials implicated in the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . The two former officials - former head of...

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori lost his appeal in a Chilean court Tuesday in his legal effort to be released from custody as he fights his extradition to Peru on charges of corruption...

Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture , on Tuesday called for unrestricted inspections of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . The UN plans to send inspectors to Guantanamo on December 6 for a...