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US Senator Joseph Biden said Sunday on ABC-TV's This Week that the US should begin efforts to close down the military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. Biden, head Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ,...

A lawyer for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Wednesday that he has secured opinions from several international lawyers concluding that the US government's terror-related charges against Hicks have no foundation in international law. Hicks,...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Spain officially ratified the EU Constitution today after the Spanish Senate voted 225 - 6 to approve the document. Spain held a non-binding referendum in...

Report of the independent expert on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, M. Cherif Bassiouni, filed March 11 2005 and submitted to the 61st Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, April 21, 2005 [saying that he had...

The top UN investigator in Afghanistan, M. Cherif Bassiouni , has been released from his post following his issuance Thursday of a report to the UN Commission on Human Rights heavily critical of US-led...

Leading Friday's international brief, Togolese Interior Minister Francois Esso Boko told reporters late Thursday night that he was recommending that what he called the "suicidal electoral process" - the presidential election scheduled for Sunday - be postponed, warning that...

Leading Thursday's international brief, the first troops of the UN peacekeeping force assigned to Sudan arrived in Khartoum Thursday to prepare the way for the more than 10,000 troops to follow. The 44 peacekeepers that arrived in...

Leading Friday's international brief, opposition members in Togo clashed with police on the first day of political campaigning for the national elections required by the resignation of Faure Gnassingbe . Protesters blocked...

In Friday's environmental law news, CSX Transportation Inc. and the federal government have refused a proposal by US District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to help settle a dispute with Washington DC officials over the city's plan to...

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit hears arguments Thursday on the legality of military commission trials of terror suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base . Last November, US District Judge James Robertson ordered...