In the wake of a US Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision Tuesday in which the convictions and sentences of five accused Cuban spies were overturned , the Cuban government has called...

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that Parmalat can proceed with its lawsuit against Bank of America though he dismissed most...

A Canadian Federal Court judge has ruled that intelligence authorities must stop interrogating Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr . Justice Konrad von Finckenstein's decision also slammed Canadian counterterrorism agents for gathering information at...

Protesters in cities across Asia Wednesday urged government officials in Japan to apologize for the actions of the Imperial Army and compensate women forced into sexual slavery in brothels run by the Japanese military before and during...

Pakistan's chief election commissioner Abdul Hameed Dogar Wednesday promised to take swift and severe action against anyone prohibiting women from accessing polls in next week's local government elections. Dogar said he would go so far as to cancel results...

Russian Federal Prisons Service director Yuri Kalinin said Wednesday that the transfer of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to a larger cell with more inmates was "normal prison procedure" and not a form of punishment....

After his arrest in Buenos Aires earlier this week, Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic agreed Tuesday to be extradited and face new charges before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website; JURIST news...

The California Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District Tuesday rejected an appeal to have a measure backed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that would change the redistricting process in California included on November's special...

Speaking as part of a panel on the independence of the judiciary at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association Tuesday, US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said that controversial...

Britain's Home Office said Tuesday that the UK government is considering a move to special judge-only courts hearing in-camera evidence argued by security-cleared "special advocates" after reports surfaced that secret pre-trial terror hearings could be in the...