The UN Human Rights Committee urged in a report Wednesday that Canada open an investigation into allegations that its law enforcement agencies cooperated in the torture of several Canadian citizens detained in Middle Eastern...
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Arab nations are quietly pressing Syria to fully cooperate with the international investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri following Syria's criticism Tuesday of a UN resolution ...
Libya will abolish capital punishment in a step towards commuting the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor according to Asharq Al-Awsat, a London-based paper citing Arab diplomats close to the Libyan government. The nurses...
Senate Democrats are calling for confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito to be held in 2006. According to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) , ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee,...
American lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan , who is currently representing six Bahraini men being held without charges at Guantanamo Bay , said Tuesday that prisoners at the US facility are becoming increasingly desperate. Colangelo-Bryan witnessed a suicide...
Outlining a $7.1 million plan to prepare for a possible bird flu epidemic , President Bush has asked Congress to devise a plan to provide liability protection for vaccine manufacturers. In his speech Tuesday, Bush...
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair won a narrow victory in the House of Commons Wednesday as his government warded off an amendment to its proposed counter-terrorism legislation by one vote. The government defeated a proposal...
A US federal appeals court has agreed to rehear the appeal of five accused Cuban spies , convicted of serving as unregistered agents of a foreign government and conspiracy to commit espionage. The decision to rehear the case...
New Japanese Minister of Justice Seiken Sugiura on Tuesday had to retreat from a statement he made earlier in the day indicating that he would not sign execution orders. Sugiura initially said that he would not sign...
A Pentagon official confirmed Tuesday that Omar al-Farouq, formerly one of Osama bin Laden's top aides until his capture in 2002, escaped from a US-run detention facility in Afghanistan in July with three other prisoners. His escape means he...
