US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. said Tuesday that he will hold a hearing to consider whether the CIA's destruction of videotapes showing the interrogation of terror suspects violated a 2005 court order. Lawyers representing several...

Pakistani police used batons and tear gas Monday against protesters attempting to march to the Islamabad residence of ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry , still under virtual house arrest despite the December 15 lifting of...

US federal prosecutions and convictions of law enforcement officers for alleged brutality have significantly increased in recent years, USA Today reported Tuesday, citing unspecified US Department of Justice statistics. The figures indicated that prosecutions for the use of excessive...

A Lebanese court handed down sentences Tuesday for two defendants convicted of attempted mass murder for their role in a 2006 plot to blow up trains in Germany . Youssef al-Haj Deeb, currently in custody in Germany, was...

US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Monday that a Senate vote on whether to extend immunity to telecommunications companies from lawsuits related to their participation in the NSA warrantless surveillance program would...

Laval un Partneri Ltd. v. Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundet, Svenska Byggnadsarbetareförbundets avd. 1, Byggettan, and Svenska Elektrikerförbundet, European Court of Justice, December 18, 2007 [ruling that a Swedish trade union illegally blocked a Latvian construction company from completing a job in Sweden...

Hungary became the first EU member to ratify the new Treaty of Lisbon when the Hungarian National Assembly voted 325-5 Monday in favor of the treaty. Fourteen assembly members abstained from the vote....

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethnics in Washington v. United States Department of Homeland Security, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, December 17, 2007 [ruling that White House visitor logs compiled by the Secret Service are public...

Nigeria has secretly carried out at least seven state executions in recent years despite official denials, Amnesty International claimed Monday in a new report. The executed men, who were all hanged, were generally tried...

The alleged head of Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) went to trial in Indonesia Monday. Zarkasih is charged with training and equipping JI members as well as conspiracy to commit...