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After a fifteen year-old girl was killed and six bystanders were injured Monday in a random shooting spree on a busy downtown shopping street, Toronto Mayor David Miller said Tuesday that weak US gun laws are partly...

A Kuwaiti court Tuesday sentenced six Islamist militants to death for their involvement in a January 2005 clash with police that left several people dead. All the men were members of the Peninsula Lions Brigades, a fundamentalist group linked...

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted two men on charges that they sought to smuggle three surface-to-air missiles into the US for use abroad. Chao Tung Wu and Yi Qing Chen were charged under a 2004 anti-terror law...

JURIST Guest Columnist R. Dobie Langenkamp, Director of the National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute at the University of Tulsa School of Law, says that for all the bad publicity surrounding the now-defunct UN Oil-for-Food program, the overall humanitarian effort...

The European Commission has outlined its plan to combat human trafficking during a two-day conference, Tackling Human Trafficking , stressing the importance of cooperation between member states in the effort to stem the flow of adults and...

Sandy Berger , who served as President Clinton's National Security Adviser from 1997 to 2001, was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and surrender his security clearance for three years on Thursday after pleading guilty to taking and...

US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday that the US Department of Homeland Security is preparing to increase its efforts to deal with the problem of illegal immigration. Last week, Arizona declared a state...

Leading Tuesday's states brief, the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit ruled today that North Dakota may not use federal water pollution laws to challenge the Army Corps of Engineers' management of the...

The leader of the Texas Minuteman Civil Defense Corps , the volunteer illegal immigration patrol, resigned Thursday after accusing members in the city of Goliad of being racist. Bill Parmley had been organizing a plan to...

Lawyers for a man with both British and Iraqi citizenship argued before the London High Court Wednesday that his nine-month detention without charge is a rights violation . Hilal Abdul-Razzaq Ali al-Jedda was detained by US...