The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday unanimously overturned a Quebec school board's ban on carrying Sikh ceremonial daggers at school, ruling that it infringed students' religious freedom under the Canadian Charter of Rights and...
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A British judge on Thursday approved the takeover of a British shipping and ports company by the United Arab Emirates company Dubai Ports World , a move which could lead to the Arab company taking control...
The US Department of Justice Thursday sued the state of New York for violating the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) by not developing voting systems that enable disabled voters easier access to...
A Ugandan military court-martial has reinstated firearms and terrorism charges against defeated presidential candidate Kizza Besigye after the military trial was postponed during elections . Besigye's lawyers said Thursday that they...
A US Department of Defense official Wednesday defended the government's decision in October to refuse access by UN investigators to detainees being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay , and...
The US Senate has voted to accept changes to legislation that would renew the USA PATRIOT Act , setting the stage for a final vote Thursday to authorize the renewal legislation. In one...
The 25-member European Union (EU) has issued a statement of support for a draft resolution proposing a new UN Human Rights Council to replace the generally-discredited Human Rights Commission , which...
The US State Department has asked Congress for $100 million for building prisons in Iraq, its only remaining large-scale reconstruction project in the country. State Department Iraq Coordinator James Jeffrey describes the...
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair told the British House of Commons Wednesday that he hopes the US will close its much-criticized detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , but measured his words by adding that...
The former head of the Human Rights Office at the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq has told the BBC that extra-judicial killings and torture have become "endemic" in Iraq, and that up to 75% of...
