All eight Democratic members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Friday, asking him to reconsider his decision not to release documents written by US Supreme Court nominee...

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has authorized the American Civil Liberties Union to make public papers it filed on August 3 challenging the Pentagon...

Lawyers in Zimbabwe prepared Friday to challenge government-proposed changes to the constitution that will block white farmers from challenging land grabs in court and prohibit people deemed anti-government from traveling abroad. The Zimbabwean government last month published proposed...

NARAL Pro-Choice America said late Thursday that it is pulling a widely criticized television spot that linked US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to anti-abortion bombers, claiming its efforts to expose Roberts' record...

Sunni Arab leaders on Friday rejected calls for a Shiite federal region to be written into the new constitution , claiming the plan would break up Iraq along strict religious and ethnic lines. Sunnis, also fearing they...

Terrorist suspect Hilal Abdul-Razzaq Ali Al-Jedda on Friday lost a court battle in his bid to be allowed to return to the UK on the grounds that his human rights had been violated . Al-Jedda, who has both...

Former commander of the military wing of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Salva Kiir Mayardit was sworn in as a vice-president of Sudan and president of the southern autonomous government Thursday....

Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander Milan Lukic is demanding to be taken into custody by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , and not by Serbian authorities because he fears for his life,...

The UN Security Council passed a resolution Thursday extending the UN mission in Iraqfor another 12 months in an effort to aid the troubled country in reaching political stability. A few weeks ago,...

Iraq's former deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz received a ten-minute telephone call in jail from his family Thursday, his first such contact in over two years, and will see them in person next week, his lawyer Badia...