The German Bundestag approved a bill Tuesday that will allow Germany to ratify the EU reform treaty, known as the Lisbon Treaty . Although both houses of Germany's parliament...
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The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced Tuesday that international co-prosecutor William Smith recommends investigating five more potential war criminals in what would be the court's final investigations. The announcement...
The identities of two former Guantanamo Bay detainees who were released to Portugal last week were revealed Monday in papers filed with the US District Court for the District of Columbia . Mohammad...
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to expand its Civil Rights Division and more actively enforce anti-discrimination laws, Attorney General Eric Holder told the New York Times in an interview...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Monday began genocide proceedings against a former businessman man charged with ordering a bulldozer to knock down a church housing refugees and...
The US has released more than 5,000 Iraqi prisoners and transferred more than 1,000 more to Iraqi control in 2009, according to a Sunday statement by the US-led Multinational Force in Iraq . This year's releases...
A judge for the US District Court for the Central District Court of California dismissed a lawsuit challenging the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on judisdictional grounds Tuesday. The suit, filed by...
The US will continue its practice of sending terror detainees to third countries for interrogation with increased oversight to prevent torture, the New York Times reported Monday. The practice, known as rendition , received...
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will "open a preliminary review" into allegations of prisoner abuse by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) interrogators during the...
Scottish Justice Minister Kennny MacAskill defended his order to release to Libya convicted Pan Am Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi in front of an emergency session ...
