Khalil Dulaimi, chief defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein said Thursday following up on earlier defense statements that the ousted Iraqi leader intends "very soon" to sue US President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and British PM Tony Blair in the new International Criminal Court for abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib and authorizing [...]

An effort to increase the detention period for terror suspects in the UK from 28 days to 60 days was defeated Wednesday in the House of Lords by a vote of 210-108. Under current law , terror suspects can be held without charge for 14 days, and a new anti-terror proposal would increase the detention [...]

US Attorney McGregor Scott of the Eastern District of California has announced the indictments of three people for ecoterrorism on federal charges of conspiracy to use fire or explosives to damage property. The three defendants, who could be sentenced from five to twenty years if convicted, allegedly targeted a dam and fish hatchery and the [...]

The European Parliament , which has launched an investigation into allegations that the CIA illegally operated secret jails in Romania and Poland and covertly flew detainees through Italy, Germany and Poland, said on Thursday that it may request US Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to testify before the committee. MEP Sarah [...]

Parliamentarians of the Council of Europe , often referred to as Europe's human rights watchdog body, have approved a resolution which condemns crimes committed by communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War . The Council's Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday labeled the crimes as "massive violations of human rights" and agreed that [...]

The Seoul High Court on Thursday ordered Dow Chemical and Monsanto to pay $65.2 million in damages for the negligent manufacture of defoliants used during the Vietnam War, including Agent Orange . The money is to go to over 20,000 Korean veterans who were exposed to the chemicals. Dow and Monsanto settled a 1984 US [...]

In a press conference Thursday, US President George Bush continued his administration's defense of the controversial domestic surveillance program , saying the program is legal and indicating that he may resist proposals by Congress to change it. Responding to a question on the surveillance program, Bush said: There's no doubt in my mind it is [...]

A high-ranking Canadian MP likely to be named to a Cabinet position in the new Conservative party government of Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper said Wednesday that the party would honor its campaign pledge to arm Canadian border guards after an incident in British Columbia on Tuesday, when some unarmed guards with the Canadian Border Services [...]

President Bush Wednesday met with a group of former law clerks to Judge Samuel Alito , describing them as people with a "wide range of political views", all of whom support Alito's nomination to the US Supreme Court. Addressing the press afterwards, Bush said: … he has the strong support of all 54 of his [...]

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke was pressured by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to ban two Islamic parties in Great Britain after the July 2005 London bombings , according to civil service e-mails leaked to a British magazine. The e-mails indicate that Blair wanted to ban the radical Islamic party Hizb-ut-Tahrir and an affiliated party, [...]