Senior magistrates in Spain's Audiencia Nacional, the country's primary terrorist court, say that they are contemplating refusing to extradite Spanish nationals to Germany after German officials refused to extradite and later released Mamoun Darkazanli , a German national and suspected al-Qaeda financier wanted in Spain on terrorist charges. Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) ruled [...]

The US Department of State urged senators Thursday not to pass the UN Reform Act of 2005 , legislation introduced by Senators Norm Coleman (D-MN) and Dick Lugar (R-IN) , that cuts the dues the US pays to the United Nations. The House of Representatives passed similar legislation introduced last month , voting to reduce [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday denied an appeal from convicted spy Jonathan Pollard to reduce the life sentence he received for selling classified documents to Israel while working as a civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy. The court ruled that Pollard should have contested his 1987 [...]

Former Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt received a 44-year suspended sentence Friday after he was convicted on eight charges including bribery and corruption, according to a legal source in Yangon. The secret tribunal at Insein prison also handed down long jail terms to two of Khin Nyunt's sons; 68 years and 51 years respectively for [...]

Detroit teenager Andrew Osantowski, accused of planning a massacre at his suburban high school, was sentenced Thursday to at least four years in prison for threatening terrorism and stockpiling weapons in his home. Law enforcement officials noted that the case seems to be among the first in the nation in which anti-terror laws were applied [...]

In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) a spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry stated Friday that the Korean War Armistice Agreement ending the war in 1953 must be replaced by a peace treaty to resolve Korea's nuclear crisis . The comments precede a meeting of regional leaders in Beijing [...]

In a report released Friday the UN condemned "Operation Restore Order," an initiative implemented by the government of Zimbabwe to reduce crime by razing urban slums. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka , Executive Director of the UN Human Settlements Programme , prepared the report following a two week tour of the country . Despite British and US [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered the US government to sell writings and other materials seized from the home of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski in 1996 and use the proceeds to contribute to the $15 million awarded to his victims. Kaczynski wanted to donate his works, including journals, letters, an [...]

London police shot and killed a man wearing a thick coat and possibly a "bomb belt" at London's Stockwell Tube station Friday, a day after the city was hit by the second round of terrorist attacks in two weeks. Passengers said a man, South Asian in appearance, ran onto a train at the south London [...]

Two days after his nomination to the Supreme Court by US President Bush, John Roberts made progress Thursday towards his goal of Senate confirmation when he received a rating of "non-activist judge" from moderate Republican Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter . Roberts has yet to receive public opposition from a single Senate Democrat and [...]