UK rights group Liberty has threatened to take legal action against the British government and senior police officers unless they agree to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated "torture...
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US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's responses to the US Senate Judiciary Committee nomination questionnaire, released November 30, 2005. Read the full text of the answered questionnaire ....
Bangladesh police on Wednesday detained 22 suspects in the latest round of suicide bombings outside courthouses around the country. Nine people died and over 65 were wounded when two bombs detonated Tuesday, in what police and lawyers...
Indonesian human rights groups have denounced the suggestion of East Timor President Xanana Gusmao that a report from the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation , which is investigating East Timor's past human rights violations, should...
US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has requested that the UN Security Council put Myanmar on the council's agenda for the first time, alleging that Myanmar's military rulers are destroying villages, targeting...
Acting head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Richard Kinley said Tuesday that parties to the Kyoto Protocol mandating that industrialized nations cut greenhouse emissions in order to curb...
Former Qatari Justice Minister Najib al-Nuaimi said Wednesday that a request has been made for Saddam Hussein to run as a candidate in future Iraqi elections and that Hussein's defense team has been asked to examine...
Lincoln Property Co. v. Christophe Roche, Supreme Court of the United States, November 29, 2005 . Read the Court's opinion...
An Italian judge ruled Tuesday that a former CIA station chief in Milan is not protected by diplomatic immunity, upholding an arrest warrant issued for his alleged participation in the kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr [Wikipedia...
The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled Tuesday that prisoners serving life sentences can be extradited abroad, overturning a 2001 decision that prevented such prisoners from answering to charges in the US insofar as punishment there...
