The armed forces of the United Kingdom may have used officially-banned tactics to interrogate detainees in Iraq, according to a report released Sunday by Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights . In previous testimony before the committee,...
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Newspapers in Tennessee, California, Georgia, and Ohio and several other states carried editorials Monday in support of US Senate passage of a proposed federal reporter shield law , of the law, citing the...
The government of the Philippines reached a peace agreement Monday with rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front , granting expanded boundaries to the country's southern Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) . In addition...
New poll results released Sunday by think tank Open Europe indicate that Irish voters do not support a second referendum on the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty...
The Basmany Court in Moscow resumed proceedings Monday in a lawsuit filed by the Russian Federal Customs Service against the Bank of New York Mellon (BNYMellon) under the US Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO)...
Chicago's voluntary gun buy-back program brought in more than 6,800 weapons on Saturday as the city sought to address gun violence following the US Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller . Chicago's...
Thousands of protesters gathered in cities throughout Bosnia and Serbia on Sunday to demonstrate their continued opposition to the arrest of former Bosnian Serb leader and fugitive Radovan Karadzic . Serbian nationalists showed...
The US Senate in a special Saturday session passed by 72-13 the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 , designed to address problems from the country's so-called "sub-prime mortgage collapse." The Act provides for...
Witnesses before the US House Judiciary Committee on Friday presented sharply divided opinions on whether the White House has overstepped its constitutional authority during George Bush's presidency, and whether or not such...
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Friday that criminal courts have no authority to direct restitution payments to anyone other than a victim. The issue came before the court in...
