In a letter to US President George W. Bush, the chief Iraqi defense counsel for Saddam Hussein has urged Hussein's immediate release in order to restore peace in Iraq, and has condemned the ousted president's current...
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US military authorities at the Guantanamo detention facility announced Thursday that the number of participants in the ongoing hunger strike at the prison has surged, reaching an acknowledged total of 84, including 48 who...
Prosecutors are once again investigating Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , this time on charges that he bribed his former lawyer to give false testimony in two criminal cases, according to a report Thursday in...
Prosecutors in Turkey have dropped one of the two state slander charges against Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk , eliminating the allegation that he insulted Turkey's armed forces. Pamuk, whose work often examines the clashes between...
A Croatian court in Zagreb Thursday sentenced former "Scorpions" paramilitary member Slobodan Davidovic to 15 years in prison Thursday for his involvement in the summer 1995 Srebrenica massacre . Davidovic and five other paramilitary members were arrested...
C.T. Hanft v. Jose Padilla, Application Respecting the Custody and Transfer of Jose Padilla, US Solicitor General Paul Clement, December 28, 2005 [asked the US Supreme Court to intervene in Padilla's custody, claiming that the US Fourth Circuit Court of...
An inquiry by the Pentagon's Inspector General has concluded that websites operated by the US military that pay journalists to write articles and commentary supporting military activities are legal and do not infringe and laws...
Less than two weeks after arguing in a brief that the US Supreme Court should stay out of the Jose Padilla "enemy combatant" case because criminal charges against Padilla in late November rendered his...
ProtectMarriage.com, one of two groups attempting to present a same-sex marriage ban to California voters in 2006, has halted its efforts for failure to gather the required 598,105 signatures needed to put...
The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, soldiers, and prison doctors to jail terms ranging from 1.5 to 11 years for their complicity in the May uprising in Andijan [JURIST...
