Judge Royce Lamberth of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday granted the government's motion to dismiss the petition for habeas corpus brought on behalf of Yemeni Guantanamo...

US Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters Tuesday that the Obama administration may miss its January deadline for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Holder said that is concerned with US...

The Canadian Federal Court released a decision Tuesday ruling that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service may monitor the communications of Canadian citizens abroad. The case arose from two Canadian nationals who had their...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday announced a plan for improving immigration detention policies and facilities in response to recent widespread allegations of...

The head of the Honduran interim government Roberto Micheletti on Monday convened his council of ministers to repeal the executive decree issued last week that suspended several constitutional rights. The repeal...

Former Costa Rican president Rafael Calderon was convicted Monday on corruption charges and sentenced to five years in prison. Calderon was unanimously convicted by three judges at the Second Judicial Circuit...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in three cases. In United States v. Stevens , the Court heard arguments on whether a...

Former Hutu intelligence chief Idelphonse Nizeyimana , wanted for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide , has been arrested in Uganda, officials announced Tuesday. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)...

A Russian court ruled Tuesday that Russian law defines marriage as between a man and a woman, affirming a registry office's refusal to recognize a marriage between two women. The couple, Irina Fedotova-Fet and Irina Shipitko, applied for a...

In the matter of an application by _______ for a warrant pursuant to sections 12 and 21 of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, Federal Court of Canada, October 6, 2009 [holding that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service may monitor...