Algerian Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Belbacha filed an emergency appeal with the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Monday to stop the government from transferring him from Guantanamo Bay to his home...
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A group of US House Democrats said Monday that they plan to pursue a resolution instructing the House Judiciary Committee to launch an investigation into whether to impeach Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ....
Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Khek Iev, also known as Duch, was charged with crimes against humanity Tuesday by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) . Duch...
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service searched the home of US Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) Monday as part of an investigation into Stevens' relationship with VECO Corp. founder Bill Allen, who...
The US House of Representatives Monday approved a non-binding resolution , asking Japan to formally apologize for enslaving hundreds of thousands of women in East Asia and the Pacific to serve as "comfort...
Russian prosecutors have brought fresh embezzlement charges against exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky , a lawyer appointed to Berezovsky's case said Monday. The charges assert that in 1997 Berezovsky took part in a $13 million...
Humanitarian and relief non-governmental organizations (NGO) are currently unable to effectively meet the needs of eight million Iraqi refugees as a result of Iraq's poor legal framework, according to a joint report issued Monday by Oxfam and...
The court-martial of the last US Army serviceman charged in the March 2006 rape and murder of a 14-year old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family in Mahmudiya (also "Mahmoudiya") began Monday. Pfc. Jesse...
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts was taken to the hospital Monday after suffering a fall. Supreme Court spokesperson Kathy Arberg said Monday that Roberts fell at his vacation home in Maine...
The Iraqi Council of Representatives entered its summer recess Monday despite failing to pass constitutional amendments or legislation seen as essential to the stabilization of Iraq. A representative said that the council, which is scheduled...
