Russian President Vladimir Putin Sunday signed into law legislation that removes "reservations to some international treaties" made by the Soviet Union refusing to recognize the jurisdiction of the UN's International Court of Justice...
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Members of the Cherokee Nation voted Saturday to adopt an amendment to the tribe's constitution , limiting membership in the Cherokee Nation and stripping approximately 2,800 descendants of former Cherokee slaves of tribal membership....
Colombian prosecutors have indicted prominent political boss Alvaro Araujo Noguera, accusing him of complicity in the 2002 kidnapping of a member of a rival political clan. Some say the kidnapping is part of a campaign by illegal paramilitary groups...
White House and US Justice Department officials have confirmed that seven US federal prosecutors were fired because they had not adequately carried out President George W. Bush's policies on immigration and firearms issues, according to a report...
Egyptian judge and president of the judges' syndicate Yahia Ragheb Daqruri said according to a report published Saturday that women cannot serve as judges because it would be against Sharia law . Daqruri's statements, appearing...
A Moroccan appeals court convicted 12 Islamic militants on terrorism charges Friday, handing down prison sentences ranging from two to 15 years. Eight of the defendants allegedly had ties to al-Qaeda and had volunteered to fight in...
A Kuwaiti court Saturday acquitted former Guantanamo Bay detainees Omar Rajab Amin and Abdullah Kamel al-Kundari of charges of fighting against US forces in Afghanistan because of insufficient evidence. The two were repatriated on...
The jury in the perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby asked US District Judge Reggie B. Walton for a "clarification of the term 'reasonable doubt'" Friday, concluding the eighth day of...
El-Masri v. United States, US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, March 2, 2007 [ruling upholding the dismissal of a rendition-related lawsuit by German citizen Khaled El-Masri against the CIA, deciding that the case could not be heard in a US...
The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday upheld the dismissal of a rendition-related lawsuit by German citizen Khaled El-Masri against the CIA , deciding that the case could...
