A US Senate panel conducting an investigation into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina has concluded that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be abolished and replaced with a new federal agency ...
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Leading Thursday's international brief, Uganda's chief prosecutor Simon Byabakama Mugenyi told the High Court where opposition leader Kizza Besigye is being tried on treason charges that files detailing the intelligence gathering efforts against Besigye...
Israeli activist group Peace Now has condemned Wednesday's directive from Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Omert to top security officials to block the gaps in the controversial security fence [JURIST report; IDF...
At least 600 US troops have been linked to cases of abuse , torture or killing of as many as 460 detainees at various detention facilities around the world, three human rights groups reported Wednesday. According to a...
A US military commission at Guantanamo Bay holding a pre-trial hearing in the case against Algerian detainee Sufyian Barhoumi Wednesday rejected his motion to be moved to a less restrictive detention area. Barhoumi,...
Jurors in the sentencing trial of Zacarias Moussaoui head into a fourth day of deliberations Thursday after no verdict was reached Wednesday. The jurors, who have been deliberating now for 16 hours over the...
The European Commission Wednesday adopted a proposal for a directive setting EU-wide criminal penalties for counterfeiting and other intellectual property offenses. If adopted in legislation by the European Parliament , the directive requiring...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether a death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of a state's method of lethal injection under 42 USC 1983 even when all...
Supporters of ousted Philippines president Joseph Estrada protested Wednesday outside the Manila courthouse where he is being tried for corruption, a day after the country's Supreme Court ruled 13-0 that current President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's...
The US Senate Wednesday voted 59-39 to hold back $1.9 billion in funds requested by President Bush to support the Iraq war and instead put them towards increased border security, including the building of a security fence along the...
