Five Kuwait citizens, previously held captive by the US at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, were released on bail from police custody in Kuwait on Sunday. The five were released on bail after...

The US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 12-1 Thursday to send a lobbying oversight bill to the full Senate, but the bill was stripped of a provision establishing an independent office with oversight over...

Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday began hammering out an immigration reform bill in the face of several competing proposals that have bitterly divided lawmakers. Committee Chairman Senator Arlen Specter's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of...

A lawyer for a Yemeni prisoner held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp has filed a motion in DC federal court asking that the use of a restraint chair and large nasal feeding tubes to force-feed...

The International Criminal Court announced Tuesday that construction on 12 holding cells has been completed, and the world's first general international war crimes court is ready to use them to detain leaders of the...

An Oregon chapter of the defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday that the National Security Agency had illegally wiretapping several conversations between the charity and its attorneys. The complaint alleges...

Britain's High Court Tuesday blocked a four week suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone ordered by a case tribunal of the Adjudication Panel for England last week for bringing his...

HealthSouth on Thursday finalized a settlement agreement with plaintiffs in several federal securities class action suits for a total $445 million. HealthSouth itself will pay defrauded investors $215 million, and its insurance...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) , a UN agency, on Thursday officially adopted the long-debated Maritime Labour Convention , a bill of rights applicable to maritime workers that sets minimum standards for wages, work-to-rest ratios,...

Opposition politicians in Uganda have said that Thursday's election, the first multi-party elections held in the country in more than twenty years, was marred by fraud. Though it appears that incumbent President Yoweri Museveni ...