The Spanish parliament began debating the proposed Law for the Recovery of the Historical Memory Thursday, legislation aimed at healing the wounds of Gen. Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime that ruled Spain from 1939...
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday denied any knowledge of the alleged CIA kidnapping of German national Khaled el-Masri until after the man was released. Steinmeier, who has previously denied...
The Dutch Parliament voted Thursday to strip Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk of responsibility for setting immigration policy and to temporarily halt the deportation of failed asylum seekers. Verdonk, known domestically as the "Iron Lady" for...
US Justice Department lawyers have asked a federal appeals court to overturn an October district court ruling ordering the Secret Service to release visitor logs for the personal residence and office of Vice-President...
The New Jersey Legislature passed a bill Thursday allowing same-sex civil unions in response to a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in October that said the...
Lawyers for Saddam Hussein accused Iraqi officials of interfering with judicial independence Thursday, after a number of public statements from officials that Iraq's Cassation Court, currently considering Hussein's appeal , would ultimately affirm...
The Public Committee against Torture in Israel et al. v. The Government of Israel et al., The Supreme Court of Israel Sitting as the High Court of Justice, December 14, 2006 [ruling that not all Israeli targeted killings of Palestinian...
One day after Florida death row inmate Angel Diaz endured a 34-minute-long - and apparently painful - execution, death penalty critics filed papers with the Florida Supreme Court seeking to once...
The Serbian Supreme Court ordered a retrial Thursday in the case of 14 former members of Serb militias who were convicted of war crimes for killing some 200 Croatian POWs at a pig farm near Vukovar [BBC...
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling that defendants of slaves have no standing to sue companies that allegedly profited from slavery before the practice was abolished....