UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday condemned a film made by far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders that criticizes the Koran, calling it "offensively anti-Islamic." In a statement , Ban said:I condemn, in the...

Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila pleaded not guilty Friday to 19 counts of conspiracy, false statements, wire fraud, federal program fraud and tax crimes related to campaign financing, and other...

US military prosecutors Friday dropped all charges against a US Marine charged in connection with the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in November 2005. Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum had...

Over 100 protesters rallied near a United Nations facility in Kathmandu on Friday, demonstrating against China's recent crackdown on pro-Tibet protests . Nepalese police arrested around 60 protesters, while about 20 others, reportedly Tibetan high school students, scaled...

Chad's Higher Judicial Council on Friday recommended that Chadian President Idriss Deby pardon six French aid workers convicted in Chad in December of attempting to kidnap 103 African children. Deby said...

Five former US secretaries of state Thursday called for the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay at a conference held at the University of Georgia School of Law to discuss foreign...

The Constitutional Court of Uganda ruled Thursday that bail is not a constitutional right, but also found that holding a person in police custody for more than 48 hours without charge is a violation of human rights....

Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri signed an executive order Thursday that will require state agencies and companies to verify the legal status of their employees when they do business with the state, and...

Kurt Westergaard, one of the Danish cartoonists who drew the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked worldwide protests in 2005, plans to sue the author of an anti-Islam film for copyright infringement,...

Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey at The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, March 27, 2008. Read the full text of the speech. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....