Minutes after the Iraqi High Tribunal resumed proceedings Sunday in the Anfal trial it adjourned the proceeding after a prosecution request for more time. The trial is expected to begin again...

Over 100 members of the Egypt parliament boycotted a Sunday parliamentary session called to debate constitutional amendments proposed last year by President Hosni Mubarak . Critics say the amendments, which target 34 articles...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales apologized in a conference call with federal prosecutors Friday for mishandling the dismissal of eight US Attorneys. Gonzales has been heavily criticized since he fired the attorneys in 2006 amid...

Polish President Lech Kaczynski assured German Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday that Warsaw would not hinder efforts to reach agreement on a European Constitution . Poland joins Spain and Italy in their...

Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has filed for an injunction to delay his military trial currently scheduled to start March 20 . Maj. Michael Mori, Hicks' Pentagon-appointed lawyer, said Saturday that Hicks' defense team...

UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Leandro Despouy has urged the Iraqi government not to execute Saddam-era Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan because of...

The federal judiciary has approved a pilot program that will allow the public to download free audio recordings of court proceedings over the internet. US District Judge Thomas F. Hogan , executive committee chairman of the policy-making Judicial Conference...

Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers in business suits clashed with police Saturday, throwing rocks after riot police fired teargas to disrupt a gathering to protest the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry . The clash took...

African Union chairman Alpha Oumar Konare Saturday urged Zimbabwe to "respect human rights and democratic principles" in the wake of this week's arrest and alleged abuse of opposition leader and presidential hopeful Morgan...

US senators Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) , both of whom watched last weekend's Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) hearing at Guantanamo Bay for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , insisted in a...