British prosecutors have charged Yassin Mutegombwa with receiving training for terrorism, making him the first person in the UK charged with the new offense under the recently enacted Terrorism Act 2006 . Mutegombwa was one of 14 suspects arrested...
US Senators John Warner (R-VA), John McCain (R-AZ), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday circulated a revised draft of a bill that would establish military commissions for terror detainees. Although the draft is closer...
An Indian court Tuesday convicted four people - all members of the same family - of conspiracy and aiding a terrorist act in the 1993 Mumbai bombings , a series of attacks which killed 257 people and injured...
US District Judge Roslyn Silver on Monday refused to prevent enforcement of an Arizona law requiring voters to show a government-issued photo ID or two non-photo forms of identification before casting a ballot. The measure,...
The European Court of Justice Tuesday upheld a UK law that extends the right to vote in European Parliament elections to residents of Gibraltar , the tiny British...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Monday charged freelance Croatian journalist Domagoj Margetic with contempt of court for posting the names of two protected witnesses on his website. Margetic is accused of...
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to pay $3.4 billion to settle Internal Revenue Service claims in what the IRS calls "the largest tax dispute in the history of the Internal Revenue Service." According...
Crime Victimization, 2005, US Department of Justice, September 11, 2006 [reporting that US violent and property crime rates in 2005 reached the lowest levels since 1973, the first year such statistics were kept, but that gun crime had increased over...
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , the region's official human rights watchdog organization, said Monday that US practices of allegedly subjecting terror suspects to torture do nothing to make the country safer...
Lawyers for the US Department of Justice told a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Monday that the court lacked the power to prevent the case of an American held...