Peru plans to mount a legal challenge to a decision from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ordering a $20 million judgment be paid to the families of deceased rebels and calling for the government to...
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US military mental health workers had diagnosed an Army soldier as a homicidal threat three months before he was involved in the alleged rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her...
The first US execution of 2007 took place Tuesday, when the state of Oklahoma executed a man by lethal injection for the 1992 murders of four people. The US Supreme Court denied Corey Duane Hamilton's...
The US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanano Bay, Cuba drew renewed criticism from rights defenders Tuesday as the camp approached the fifth anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees from Afghanistan. Terry Davis...
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday that the execution of two co-defendants of Saddam Hussein should be delayed "to see what the circumstances are," without offering any further explanation. Awad...
Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq on Tuesday appealed the 15-year prison sentence handed down by a German court earlier this week for Motassadeq's role in assisting the men who carried out the Sept. 11...
President Bush has cleared the way for drilling of oil and natural gas in parts of Bristol Bay, Alaska, and the central Gulf of Mexico . In a memorandum to the secretary of interior...
US Army Spc. Juston R. Graber pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the deaths of three Iraqi detainees in Thar Thar, a town near Samarra, some 60 miles north of Baghdad, but...
MedImmune v. Genentech, Supreme Court of the United States, January 9, 2006 . Read the court's opinion per Justice Scalia along...
The US House of Representatives passed its first piece of legislation for the 110th Congress late Tuesday, a bill to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission remaining after the enactment of...
