Churches across the US have agreed to become part of the New Sanctuary Movement , a program to protect illegal immigrants from arrest and deportation and place pressure on the government to make becoming a citizen an easier...
Member nations to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) marked the 10th anniversary of the accord at an unveiling of a memorial dedicated to chemical warfare victims at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of...
The High Court of Ireland ruled Wednesday that the Irish constitution does not prevent a minor girl in state care from traveling to the UK to have an abortion. Lawyers appointed by Attorney General Rory...
Pakistani police have registered a case against unidentified persons for firing at the house of Munir A. Malik, lawyer for suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and president of the Supreme Court...
A federal judge in Massachusetts has dismissed a lawsuit brought by illegal immigrant detainees over their transfer from Massachusetts to Texas holding centers following a March 6 factory raid in which 360 people were arrested....
Former US Attorney Todd P. Graves was forced to resign from his post with the Western District of Missouri last year after he expressed a difference of opinion with the Department of Justice (DOJ) on...
Syria will take no part in the establishment of a UN tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri if the tribunal acts to undermine the...
United States v. Luis Posada Carriles, US District Court for the Western District of Texas, Judge Kathleen Cardone, May 8, 2007 [dismissing an indictment against anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles, holding that the government purposefully manipulated Carriles' statement in order...
The Egyptian Parliament Wednesday deprived two Muslim Brotherhood lawmakers of their official immunity. Under Egyptian law, legislators enjoy immunity from prosecution unless the parliament votes to remove it. Sabri Amer and Ragab Abu...
A US Marine sergeant testified Wednesday at the Article 32 hearing of Marine lawyer Capt. Randy W. Stone that Stone and other supervisors repeatedly ignored his requests to launch an investigation into the killings of 24 Iraqi...