Citing national security concerns, the US Justice Department has asked a federal district court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Canadian man who claims he was deported to Syria and tortured. Maher Arar , born in Syria and a citizen of Canada as well, was detained at JFK Airport in New York City in [...]

In the wake of a US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision Tuesday in which the convictions and sentences of five accused Cuban spies were overturned , the Cuban government has called for the release of all five men. On Wednesday, Ricardo Alarcon, the speaker of the National Assembly in Cuba, praised the ruling and [...]

President Bush signed a 6-year, $286.4 billion highway bill on Wednesday, ending a long debate between Congress and the White House and putting into place a permanent highway bill for the first time since September 2003. The old bill was extended six times as both sides debated spending amounts and special projects; the Senate originally [...]

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that Parmalat can proceed with its lawsuit against Bank of America though he dismissed most of the Italian dairy company's claims. Kaplan granted Bank of America's motion to dismiss for 10 of the 12 claims put forth [...]

A Canadian Federal Court judge has ruled that intelligence authorities must stop interrogating Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr . Justice Konrad von Finckenstein's decision also slammed Canadian counterterrorism agents for gathering information at a place where he claims Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been violated. Khadr has admitted killing a US medic while [...]

Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that five men turned over to them by US authorities at Guantanamo have been released. No names were given, but an official said the five had completed the judicial process and any prison terms. It's unclear how long each prisoner was detained or when they were turned over. The US [...]

Protesters in cities across Asia Wednesday urged government officials in Japan to apologize for the actions of the Imperial Army and compensate women forced into sexual slavery in brothels run by the Japanese military before and during WWII. The nearly 200,000, mostly Korean sex slaves known as "comfort women" have received some apologies from the [...]

Despite answering questions before the Iraqi Special Tribunal in late June, former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz said Tuesday that he will not testify against Saddam Hussein at his upcoming trial. Saddam has been officially been charged only for the 1982 killings of dozens of Shiites in response to an assassination attempt though more [...]

Pakistan's chief election commissioner Abdul Hameed Dogar Wednesday promised to take swift and severe action against anyone prohibiting women from accessing polls in next week's local government elections. Dogar said he would go so far as to cancel results in areas where women were barred from casting votes. The statements come after the country's North [...]

Public Advocate of the United States , a right-wing group based in Virginia, announced Wednesday that they would become the first conservative group to oppose the nomination of John Roberts to the US Supreme Court. The group is protesting his behind-the-scenes work on Romer v. Evans , a 1996 case where the Supreme Court overturned [...]