Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sued anti-government activist Sondhi Limthongkul and 11 others for defamation and $26 million in damages, according to Thaksin's lawyer Monday. Thaksin sued Sondhi and the state-run Communications Authority of...
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Indian authorities on Sunday arrested a fourth suspect in the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed over 180 people . Authorities arrested Dr. Tanyir Ansari late Sunday after several days of questioning in...
Report, Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine, American Bar Association, July 24, 2006 [finding that President Bush's practice of attaching signing statements to new laws undermines the rule of law and the constitutional system...
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Monday that weekend statements by visiting United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland that damage caused by Israeli airstrikes in Beirut was excessive and in...
Jordan is a "central hub in a global complex of secret detention centers" allegedly operated by the US Central Intelligence Agency and foreign intelligence agencies, according to an Amnesty International report [text;...
US House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) told Fox News Sunday over the weekend that he might challenge a July 10 federal court order allowing the FBI to view documents seized in the...
US Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) promised Sunday that US United Nations Ambassador John Bolton would face a difficult fight in his upcoming Senate confirmation hearing. Last summer, President Bush bypassed the Senate confirmation process and...
The Saddam Hussein trial resumed in Baghdad on Monday, though the former Iraqi leader was not in court due to his weekend hospitalization after collapsing in jail on the sixteenth day...
An American Bar Association Task Force on Presidential Signing Statements and the Separation of Powers Doctrine has determined that President Bush's practice of attaching signing statements to new laws "undermine the rule...
"No Blood, No Foul:" Soldiers' Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq, Human Rights Watch, July 23, 2006 [finding on the basis of interviews with US soldiers that US military commanders in Iraq regularly authorized torture and abusive interrogation practices and...
