The Iraqi Council of Representatives Wednesday approved a measure to take legal action against Al Jazeera television for alleged insults against top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani . The...
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Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry Tuesday reluctantly signed a strict immigration reform bill meant to discourage illegal immigration. The Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007 denies illegal immigrants state identification, and requires...
A Zimbabwe court ruled Wednesday that British national Simon Mann could be extradited to Equatorial Guinea to face charges of plotting a coup against Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo . Mann's...
A UK court found two men guilty of violating Section 3 of Britain's Official Secrets Act by leaking a secret memo in which President Bush was said to have told UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in...
The new UK Ministry of Justice began operations Wednesday, as a controversial split of the traditional Home Office that is setting the British government against the judiciary went into effect. Lord Falconer of Thoroton [official...
The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) reduced the sentence of former Bratunac brigade commander Vidoje Blagojevic from 18 to 15 years for his role in the...
Three US lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay , calling the prison a symbol of US failure and hypocrisy. Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) announced...
A federal judge dismissed the indictment against anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles on Tuesday, holding that the government purposefully manipulated Carriles' statement in order to charge him with lying to immigration authorities....
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday denied a request by the city government of Washington, DC for an en banc rehearing of the court's March decision invalidating the city's handgun ban ....
With Serbia poised to assume the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe this week, several human rights groups have spoken out against the country's new role, asserting that a country in violation of the 1948 Genocide...
