The ongoing battle against changes to rules that regulate US power plants continued Wednesday, after the Natural Resources Defense Council made public draft EPA regulations it insists will lead to dirtier power plants. The proposed standards would...
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The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) , Egypt's leading non-governmental rights group, has said that it does not believe the upcoming presidential elections will be fair due to the lack of neutral election monitors. EOHR and other...
Human rights group Amnesty International reported Tuesday that two men who were formerly held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have been detained in Russia by men claiming to be...
A US military tribunal in Iraq has ruled that a Reuters cameraman being held without charge in Abu Ghraib prison will be detained for another six months while the US reviews its case against him. Iraqi...
A US federal court has frozen the Palestinian Authority's access to assets held in the US after it failed to pay $116 in damages for the 1996 shooting deaths of an American citizen and his Israeli wife. After the...
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union are expected to file suit in federal court Wednesday, demanding the release of Numan Adnan Al Kaby, an Iraqi-born permanent US resident arrested and held in Baghdad since April 2005....
After hearing oral arguments Tuesday, US District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein expressed hesitation over ordering the release of 97 Department of Defense photos and videotapes depicting the abuse of prisoners held by US forces at...
The Supreme Court of Nicaragua has ruled that former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman , who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2003, can leave his home and move freely around Managua, Nicaragua's...
AP is reporting that Philippine legislators have quashed the impeachment case against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo . With opposition members boycotting, the House Committee on Justice voted to quash all impeachment complaints against...
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have been ordered to conduct "threat assessments" of prison inmates in order to determine whether they could commit extremist violence when released, according to a letter obtained by AP. Randy D. Parsons,...
