Indonesian Internet providers said Friday that they will remove a ban on file-sharing websites including YouTube, Google Video, and MySpace , which was put in place to prevent the transmission of a controversial anti-Islamic film created by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders . Due to complaints from Web users, the Internet providers have said that [...]

China's chief justice has instructed judges to impose harsh sentences, including the death penalty, for violent crimes, China's Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. Touring the Guangdong province last week, president of the Supreme People's Court Wang Shengjun , said that crimes posing a serious threat to the "social order" should be dealt with especially harshly. [...]

Frustrations over the delay of the US military commission trial of Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr continued Friday, with prosecutors urging US military judge Col. Peter Brownback to set a trial date and Khadr's defense team blaming the prosecution for delays, saying that they have blocked access to evidence that could exonerate Khadr. Khadr's [...]

A Colombian court Friday temporarily blocked extradition to the US of narcotics trafficker and former paramilitary chief Carlos Mario Jimenez Naranjo, also known as "Macaco," staying extradition approval granted last week by President Alvaro Uribe that had followed the Colombian Supreme Court's ruling permitting extradition . Jimenez, who was indicted in the US District Court [...]

The US will continue to hold Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein despite an Iraqi judicial order dismissing terrorism-related charges against Hussein, a US military spokesman has said. Hussein, who has been detained in Iraq by the US for two years, was granted amnesty this week under Iraq's amnesty law , which effectively closes the case [...]

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff said Friday that DHS will move forward with plans to use spy satellites as part of a domestic intelligence program designed to assist law enforcement agencies. In his response to concerns by Representatives Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Jane Harman (D-CA), and Chris P. Carney (D-PA) on [...]

The US will not attend a scheduled meeting in Dublin to draft a legally binding ban on cluster bombs in May, US State Department officials told reporters Friday. The US will instead attend United Nations talks in Geneva intended to restrict the use of the munitions, but not ban them outright. In June 2007, the [...]

Sending British soldiers on patrol or into combat with inadequate equipment could be a violation of their human rights, the High Court of Justice ruled in London Friday. The British Ministry of Defence had argued that the Human Rights Act does not apply to soldiers on active service abroad outside bases under British military jurisdiction, [...]

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that evidence obtained through torture is inadmissible in court, even when it is found to be reliable and vital for conviction. In doing so, the court overturned the convictions and set aside the sentence of a former police officer who was found guilty of auto theft and [...]

Turkey must speed up political and social reforms to meet the criteria for accession into the European Union , European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said in a speech before the Turkish parliament Thursday. Barroso applauded recent efforts to reform the controversial Article 301 of the country's penal code, which makes "insulting the Turkish identity" [...]