The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday released a partially redacted opinion in Latif v. Obama, overturning the release order for Yemeni Guantanamo detainee Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif...
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Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader pleaded not guilty on Thursday to taking bribes worth €10 million from Hungarian energy group MOL in exchange for allowing MOL a dominant position in Croatia's oil and gas group...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) , marking the first time a Congressional group has voted to repeal the law banning same-sex marriage. The vote...
A Brazilian federal court ruled Wednesday that work on a dam being constructed on the Xingu River in the Amazon jungle may continue. The Federal Court of the First Region had ordered...
The Supreme Court of Israel on Thursday upheld the rape conviction of former Israeli president Moshe Katsav . The court rejected Katsav's appeal of his conviction for rape, sexual abuse and sexual...
Mexican security forces have committed widespread rights abuses , such as torture and forced disappearances, in combating organized crime, according to a report released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report, "Neither Rights...
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday denied a petition for rehearing regarding its unanimous decision to vacate a district court ruling that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT) [10 USC...
The Australian Senate on Thursday passed the Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011 which requires that cigarettes be sold in generic olive green packages, without brands or logos. The packages will also have warnings of...
Alleged al Qaeda senior leader Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri made his first court appearance Wednesday, his first public appearance since he was captured in Dubai in 2002. Nashiri is charged with war crimes [NYT...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases on preemption. In National Meat Association v. Harris , the court considered where the federal regime of slaughterhouse regulation as...
