US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday defended the US government's decision to prohibit UN human rights observers from interviewing detainees on any visit to the prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay ....
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Texas Judge C.W. Duncan ruled Monday afternoon that Rep. Tom DeLay will get a new judge to preside over his trial on money laundering and criminal conspiracy charges . In granting DeLay's recusal...
An influential Ohio Republican said Tuesday that US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito had a judicial philosophy "clearly within the mainstream" and that he should not be filibustered. Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) was a...
The US military released 500 prisoners Tuesday from the Abu Ghraib prison in observance of Eid ul-Fitr , the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan . The 500 prisoners, like the 1,000...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia on Tuesday transferred its case against Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac to Croatia, marking the first time a case involving persons already indicted by the ICTY...
The Syrian government on Tuesday sharply criticized a UN resolution ordering Syria to fully cooperate with the international investigation into the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri or face serious diplomatic...
A group of asylum-seekers originating from Asia and Africa has begun a hunger strike in a detention camp in southwest Morocco in an attempt to gain refugee status from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) , the...
Former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien and his chief of staff, Jean Pelletier, must be held accountable for the flawed running of the federal sponsorship program from 1994 to 2003, said the first report on the scandal...
The President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform , created by President Bush to find simpler and more economically productive methods of taxation, has recommended two different tax plans, both of which would change the way all individuals...
In a document to be released later this month, the European Commission will set forth nearly 150 requirements, all of which must met by Turkey within two years, in order for the Mediterranean nation to be accepted...
