The trial of 30 suspected terrorists accused of plotting to explode the Spanish National Court in Madrid began Monday. The defendants are charged with membership in a terrorist organization, conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack and forgery....
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Emadeddin Baghi , founder of Iran's Society for Defending Prisoners' Rights , was arrested on charges of violating national security, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Sunday. An unnamed government official told IRNA that Baghi and...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday agreed to review a "reconciliation ordinance" that granted amnesty to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and paved the way for a power-sharing agreement between Bhutto...
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to withdraw Russia from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty Friday unless the treaty is expanded to include neighboring countries such as China, India and Pakistan. The treaty, signed...
The Arizona Supreme Court indefinitely stayed the execution of a man on death row Thursday, saying it will wait until the US Supreme Court reviews whether lethal injection is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment in Baze v....
A private advocacy group requested a temporary restraining order Thursday to compel the White House to save back-up disks of all e-mails relating to the Bush administration. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics...
Over 2,000 people died while being arrested by various US state and local law enforcement officers between 2003 and 2005, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported Thursday, including over 1,000 deaths caused by...
The Tunisian government Thursday condemned torture as "reprehensible," criticizing US District Judge Gladys Kessler for blocking the transfer of a Guantanamo Bay detainee to Tunisia because he faced a threat of torture. In her...
European laws need to be strengthened in order to more effectively fight organized crime throughout Europe, Italian prosecutor Nicola Gratteri said Monday. Gratteri is investigating the August slayings of six Italians in Duisburg, Germany , widely believed to...
Serbian police arrested 56 neo-Nazis for protesting the potential independence of Kosovo from Serbia despite a ban against their planned demonstration, Serbian police said Monday. The arrests were made after fighting broke out Sunday between the...
