Amnesty International urged the US to abandon the military commission system and try Guantanamo Bay detainees in the federal courts in a report released Thursday, just days before the US military is poised to begin military...

The Community Rights Counsel (CRC) said Wednesday that the new Judicial Conference Policy on Judges' Attendance at Privately Funded Educational Programs has not yet produced any public disclosures of travel expenses on judicial websites....

A Moscow court on Wednesday found Maksim V. Kashulinsky, publisher of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, guilty of defamation for saying publicly that the subject of an upcoming piece had filed a lawsuit to make changes to the...

A third US soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday for his role in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in the Mahmudiya area last March. Pfc. Bryan Howard pleaded...

Banned Egyptian opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood announced Wednesday that it plans to boycott next week's referendum on controversial constitutional amendments proposed last year by President Hosni Mubarak [official profile;...

Former Vice President Al Gore testified before US congressional committees Wednesday that global warming is "a crisis that threatens the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth." In his opening statement [prepared...

The Sex Professionals of Canada (SPOC) announced Wednesday they will initiate an application with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice alleging that three Canadian criminal offenses are unconstitutional under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms...

Two independent UN rights experts voiced concern Wednesday over Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's recent suspension of Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry for "misuse of office" and ensuing protests across the country. In a joint statement...

Serge Brammertz , the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court who is leading the UN's independent investigation into the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri told the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday denied a petition for review of a 2004 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order preempting state regulation over Voice over Internet...