Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday formally charged Thomas Lubanga , founder of the militant Union of Patriotic Congolese , accusing him...
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US District Judge Patricia Seitz of the Southern District of Florida on Monday threw out Florida's Third-Party Registration Law , which had imposed steeply scaled fines on organizations and volunteers who failed to submit voter applications within...
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has refused to grant an injunction to halt a new Oklahoma law that requires parental notification at least 48 hours in advance of...
New statistics from the Office of Immigration Statistics in the US Department of Homeland Security estimate that there were 2.5 million more illegal immigrants living in the United States in January 2006 than there were in January...
The governing party in Rwanda is proposing legislation to eliminate the death penalty for genocide in an effort to encourage other countries to extradite suspects in the 1994 genocide that left...
US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff urged state legislatures to support the federal Real ID Act at the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) [official...
The Court of Appeal division of the Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia on Friday quashed the conviction of Joseph Terrence "Jihad Jack" Thomas , the first Australian jailed under the Suppression of the Financing of...
Human Rights Watch on Friday said that "the Iraqi High Tribunal is presently incapable of fairly and effectively trying a genocide case in accordance with international standards and current international criminal law" and called on the tribunal...
US Marines involved in the death of 24 civilians in Haditha last November concealed and destroyed evidence relating to the incident, the New York Times reported Friday. According to top military officials speaking to the Times who...
A federal jury sitting in Raleigh, North Carolina on Thursday found David Passaro guilty of abusing a detainee in Afghanistan . The jury convicted Passaro on three misdemeanor counts of simple assault and...
