The Federal Court of Canada has announced that it will hear the asylum appeal of US deserter Jeremy Hinzman . In January 2004, days before his scheduled deployment to Iraq, Hinzman deserted the US army and...

Democrats on the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations claimed in a minority staff report on the UN Oil-for-Food scandal released Friday that the US Treasury Department failed to respond to UN...

In a statement released Friday, the US State Department announced that it has extended an invitation to Guantanamo Bay prison to three UN human rights rapporteurs. State Department officials say "the invitation was extended in...

Portugal's constitutional court has blocked a national referendum designed to relax the country's abortion laws. Prime Minister Jose Socrates and the ruling Socialist party had intended to hold the referendum on November 27...

The Moscow Bar Association reported Friday that it had found no evidence to disbar three lawyers on the defense team of jailed Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky . On September 23 the Russian Prosecutor General's office requested that...

Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX) made his first court appearance in state criminal court in Austin Friday since his indictment earlier this month on criminal conspiracy and money laundering charges, but his arraignment has been postponed pending his...

President Bush Friday called for the UN to convene an urgent meeting to consider what he characterized as the "deeply disturbing" findings of the Mehlis report suggesting that the February assassination of former...