Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday in a televised address that he was setting up a special commission to investigate widespread violence that broke out in the wake of last week's assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto [JURIST...
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Jakarta lawyers for TIME magazine are ready to file their appeal of a defamation judgment by the Supreme Court of Indonesia awarding $106 million in damages to former Indonesian President Haji Mohammad Suharto [CNN profile;...
The CIA obstructed the investigations of the 9/11 Commission by withholding videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects even though commission leaders had lawfully and repeatedly asked for information that would clearly be contained...
New Hampshire became the fourth state in the United States to recognize same-sex civil unions Tuesday when its civil unions law took effect. The law allows same-sex couples to enter into civil unions with the "same rights, responsibilities,...
US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts used his 2007 year-end report on the federal judiciary to urge Congress to increase the salaries of federal judges and to increase communication between all branches of government....
The Iraqi government sent a draft bill to the speaker of Iraq's parliament Tuesday which could allow for the pardon and release of around 5,000 detainees currently held in Iraqi prisons. The bill, approved ...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has signed a decree granting amnesty to anyone involved in an aborted 2002 coup against him, as well as other attempts to assassinate him or overthrow the government,...
A US federal appeals court on Monday temporarily blocked the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Belbacha to his home country of Algeria while it considers Belbacha's request for a permanent bar against the transfer. Belbacha has...
