AP is reporting that, as anticipated , Pfc. Lynndie England has pleaded guilty to charges relating to her role in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. She becomes the seventh low-level guard to plead guilty for maltreatment of...

US Army AR15-6 investigative report regarding the March 4 incident at a traffic control point in Baghdad resulting in the death of one Italian and the wounding of two others, released April 30, 2005 [concluding that the death of agent...

The Navajo Nation president Sunday veteod a proposal that would have banned same-sex marriages on the tribal reservation. The measure setting various restrictions on marriage, including a same-sex marriage ban, was unanimously approved last month by the...

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Insitutional Rights, 04-1152, considering whether universities may ban military recruiters from their campuses without having federal funding withdrawn under...

The 2005 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference opened Monday in New York, with almost 190 nations gathering to review progress under the 1970 treaty . The conference comes as nuclear tensions with North Korea [JURIST news...

Guatemala will create a security unit to offer increase protection for 19 judges and six magistrates who have received death threats, according to a plan approved by the country's supreme court on Friday. The court announced the plan at...

UN peacekeepers sexually abused Liberian women, according to an initial UN investigation announced on Friday. An initial investigation into allegations showed that as many as 20 reports of abuse could be substantiated, with the allegations ranging from peacekeepers having...

Some 85 prisoners were released from US detention facilities in Afghanistan Sunday after being brought to the Afghan Supreme Court in Kabul, where they swore allegiance to the government in a short ceremony. The prisoners from the south of...

The New York Times reported Sunday that a new military investigation of interrogation tactics used on terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has found several instances of abuse and humiliation of prisoners. The report by Air Force Lt. Gen....

Some ten thousand protestors took to the streets of Kathmandu Sunday in two separate demonstrations just a day after King Gyanendra lifted the state of emergency in the country which he had declared on February 1...