An Italian judge issued European arrest warrants on Friday for the 22 CIA operatives accused of participating in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003 . Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro said the warrants allowed for the arrest of those accused in any of the 25 European Union countries. Spataro has also filed a request [...]

Muslim-Americans attending an annual international religious conference in Canada that began Friday and continues through January 4 may be subject to lengthy security checks upon their return to the United States after US District Court Judge William Skretny ruled Thursday that such searches were not unconstitutional. While he acknowledged "there is no information whatsoever to [...]

US Senate Juduciary Committee ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy suggested Friday that US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito will face additional questions at his January confirmation hearing on unchecked presidential authority and the particular issue of warrantless eavesdropping after the US National Archives earlier Friday released a 1984 Justice Department memo Alito wrote expressing the view [...]

In response to a series of deadly bombings in recent months, the government of Bangladesh plans to introduce a new anti-terrorist law to counter Islamist militants. The attacks, aimed at judges, lawyers, police and journalists, have killed 30 people since August. A bombing at a court complex in December left 25 wounded while days earlier [...]

Khalil Dulaimi, chief Iraqi lawyer for Saddam Hussein , claimed Friday in an interview with the Associated Press that his client had been "severely tortured" by Americans during his detention, bolstering Saddam's own claims dramatically made in court Wednesday. He said that three medical teams had found evidence of abuse and that he himself had [...]

A court in London ruled Friday that the former Vice-President of crippled Russian oil-giant Yukos , Aleksander Temerko, currently living in Britain, cannot be extradited to Russia, saying that he would likely not receive a fair trial there. Temerko became Vice-President of Yukos in 2003 after former owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to eight years [...]

A federal judge has granted a temporary injunction against a new California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors sought by the Video Software Dealers Association and the Entertainment Software Association . In a ruling issued Wednesday, US District Court Judge Ronald Whyte stated the industry groups were likely to [...]

Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Derbez plans to travel to Washington on December 29 to meet with US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick to discuss a proposed 800-mile wall to be built along the US-Mexico border . The US House of Representatives passed a controversial border security bill earlier this month providing, among other things, [...]

Adel Yahya, a 23-year old student, appeared in a London court Friday after being charged under the Terrorism Act of 2000 with conspiracy to cause explosions in connection with his alleged role in planning a failed series of attacks on the London transit system on July 21, 2005, two weeks after the devastating July 7 [...]

A Dutch court Friday sentenced a Dutch businessman to the maximum term of 15 years in prison for complicity in war crimes for selling chemicals used to produce mustard gas to Saddam Hussein's government. Frans van Anraat , who went on trial in The Hague a month ago, was himself acquitted of genocide charges , [...]