Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005, passed by the UK House of Commons and House of Lords and received royal assent, March 11, 2005 [establishing a system of judicially-authorized "control orders" for uncharged terror suspects; legislation is reviewable on a yearly...

Log of (and links to) Department of Defense reports of investigations into US treatment of prisoners in Iraq obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request, posted online by the ACLU March 10,...

Santa Clara Superior Court Judge James P. Kleinberg ruled Friday that Apple Computer could subpoena the e-mail records of the PowerPage Macintosh enthusiast website. Apple has been engaged in legal actions against PowerPage and other...

A US Department of Justice report released Friday described allegations of mistreatment of Muslim prisoners at several US federal prisons and documented one instance where a warden and guards discriminated and retaliated against Muslim inmates who had complained. The...

Polish authorities have arrested five officers, including a colonel and two majors, for allegedly accepting bribes from both US and Iraqi companies while serving in Iraq. Officials from the Polish Defense Ministry claimed that two...

With a political compromise over the controversial UK Prevention of Terrorism Bill accepted , the House of Lords approved the latest Commons version of the anti-terror legislation early Friday evening London time, ending the deadlock between the two...

Conservative leader Michael Howard has said he has accepted a compromise offer by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair that would likely push through contentious anti-terror legislation that had the Commons and Lords locked in back-and-forth debate Thursday...

A Cambodian military court charged two Khmer Rouge leaders with war crimes Friday to prevent the two from being released before a UN-backed tribunal is set up to try them. Court director Ney Thol said...

Nepal Friday released former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and 17 others held since King Gyanendra dismissed the elected government and seized power on Feb. 1 . Several other leaders still remain under house arrest,...

A Yemeni sheik and his assistant were convicted Thursday on terror-funding charges, bringing to a close a convoluted three-year case that saw the FBI's star witness set himself on fire in front of the White House in...