Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared a national emergency in a taped television address Friday after uncovering a plot to oust her from office. The state of national emergency declaration issued...
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism Martin Scheinin sharply criticized Turkey's anti-terrorism laws Thursday, claiming Turkey's definition of terrorism is too broad and vague with respect to local terrorist groups....
Indian officials have arrested Alok Tomar, editor of the obscure Indian magazine Senior India, for publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Officials charged Tomar with hurting religious sentiments in India, although it is unknown whether the...
The International Committee of the Red Cross Friday called on individuals and groups in Iraq to comply with international humanitarian law while officials imposed daytime curfews in several Iraqi cities in an attempt to subdue a...
Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. has launched a probe into the state's indigent defense system in response to funding and availability problems for public defenders, especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ,...
A series of internal Canadian government memos newly declassified under the Canadian Access to Information Act has increased speculation that the US Central Intelligence Agency has flown terror suspects through Canada as part of an...
A US federal judge has refused to grant an immediate injunction against Research in Motion , which would have shut down the company's BlackBerry wireless service in the United States. In 2003, the US District Court...
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, Jordan's UN ambassador and advisor to the secretary-general on the sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping operations, has told the UN Security Council that it could be three or four...
FBI memos released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act action suggest that senior US military officials, up to and including former Undersecretary of Defense...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday rejected a request by former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for provisional release so that he might receive medical treatment...
