The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), the political movement of former rebel leader turned vice president John Garang , called Wednesday for an international investigation into the helicopter crash that caused his death and ignited deadly...

Benyam Mohammed , a 27-year-old Ethiopian man held at Guantanamo, claims he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco, and Afghanistan before arriving in Cuba. While there is no independent verification for Mohammed's claims, it is not the...

Government officials from Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province defended their controversial morals law before the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday. Earlier this week, the government argued that the law was unconsitutionally vague and...

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has overturned a lower court ruling and struck down a Hawaiian school's policy of only admitting native Hawaiians as students, even...

Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler is under pressure to deny a US request to extradite Canadian marijuana activist Marc Emery in a case that is likely to spark debate over the countries' diverging drug...

A New York City councilman and state assemblyman have announced support for racial profiling in terrorism searches to protect the New York transit system from attacks like the recent London bombings. Assemblyman Dov Hikind , a Democrat from...

The US has strongly criticized a new UN draft of proposed UN reforms, complaining that the document is too long, poorly put together, and not responsive to American concerns. While the draft is far from being voted on, the...

Media giant Time Warner Inc. announced Wednesday it is setting aside $3 billion in reserves to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders who claimed they lost money when the company's shares declined following a merger with AOL...

Zambian authorities said on Wednesday that a suspect in the July 7 London bombings will be deported to Britain. Haroon Rashid Aswat , a British man being held by Zambian police , is under investigation for 20...

German Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily has said in an interview with a German newspaper that the people of Germany must consider introducing new laws allowing potentially dangerous people to...