The US Senate approved an amendment to the 2008 Senate Defense Reauthorization Bill by unanimous voice vote Thursday that would expand federal hate crimes legislation. Among its provisions, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes...
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Russia's top prosecutor has denied a move by a descendant of Russia's Tsar Nicholas II to have the Romanovs declared "political victims," Russia's RIA-Novosti reported Wednesday. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna Romanov , a Spanish resident, was...
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Thursday upheld a 2005 lower court ruling acquitting two Kosovo Albanians and convicting one other for their alleged actions at a prison camp...
Lawyers representing twelve members of the US House of Representatives who were subpoenaed last month in the criminal trial of a defense contractor charged with bribing former US Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham filed motions in...
Pakistan police closed off the capital of Islamabad on Thursday to prevent protesters from rallying against President Musharraf's bid for a second five-year term in office. Pakistani lawyers had threatened earlier in the week to defy a government ban...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe devoted much of his address to the 62nd UN General Assembly on Wednesday to attacking the human rights record of US President George W. Bush. Mugabe was responding to Bush's address...
Myanmar police arrested dozens of Buddhist monks during dawn raids on two monasteries Thursday, one day after police opened fire on anti-government protesters , killing at least eight and arresting over 300. Also Thursday, police again fired shots...
Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (INP) has begun officially publishing a list of public officials who worked with or were spied on by the country's Communist-era secret police as part of ongoing efforts to reconcile Poland's pre-1989...
The US federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) said Wednesday that it will reshelve all religious material taken from prison chapel libraries originally determined to fall outside of the agency's approved list of materials. The BOP made the...
A US district judge ruled Wednesday that two provisions of the USA Patriot Act that deal with physical search and electronic eavesdropping are unconstitutional. Brandon Mayfield , the Oregon attorney arrested [JURIST...
