Kenyan prosecutors brought piracy charges Thursday against 18 Somali nationals who were captured at sea by European naval forces over the past two months and handed over to the Kenyan authorities. The suspected pirates were captured by...
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Former Khmer Rouge prison head Kaing Guek Eav , also known as "Duch," testified in court Thursday that he trained staff to elicit confessions from prisoners through torture. Kaing also testified ...
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday adopted a new standard for authorizing and reviewing the detention of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay proffered by...
A London High Court judge said Wednesday that the court will issue an order for the release of classified US intelligence relating to the detention of Binyam Mohamed if the UK government...
The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday released a report by the Department of Justice (DOJ) indicating that former attorney general John Ashcroft and former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2002...
California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Wednesday that portions of Proposition 209 , an amendment to the California Constitution banning the use of affirmative action for state hiring, contracting, or university admission, may violate the US Constitution. Brown made...
The Connecticut General Assembly on Wednesday approved a bill granting same-sex couples the right to marry. The legislation codified the October ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court...
A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered Wednesday that Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Jawad , detained since he was a teenager,...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against Iran by hostages from the 1979 hostage situation in Tehran. The class-action lawsuit, brought by from former hostages Charles...
The Constitutional Court of Moldova on Wednesday validated the recount results of the April 5 election in which the Communist Party won 60 of the 101 parliamentary seats. The court issued two acts , which cannot...
