"Indiscriminate airstrikes" by Israel were responsible for the majority of civilian casualties during the summer 2006 Lebanon conflict , according to a 249-page report issued Thursday by Human Rights Watch (HRW)...

Fiji's military commander and self-declared interim Prime Minister Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama announced in a radio broadcast Thursday that a state of emergency will be imposed in Fiji for the next month. Bainimarama...

The US Department of Defense said Thursday that 16 Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to their home country of Saudi Arabia . Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz...

A South Korean appeals court Thursday suspended the prison sentence of Chung Mong-koo , chairman of Hyundai Motors Group , for five years, saying imprisoning him for embezzlement and bribery would be too risky for the nation's...

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Wednesday filed an appeal of last month's US District Court decision ruling that a 2005 law banning the sale of violent video games to minors was unconstitutional ....

The National Security Archive filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Executive Office of the President and other presidential affiliates to compel recovery of 5 million electronic messages that apparently went missing...

John Doe, American Civil Liberties Union, and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, v. Alberto Gonzales, Robert Mueller, et al., US District Court for the Southern District of New York, September 6, 2007 [ruling that national security letters demanding private information...

Tunisian officials have been mistreating and abusing two former Guantanamo Bay detainees since their release from the US prison facility in June, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Wednesday. The report alleges...

The Supreme Court of Louisiana ruled 4-3 Wednesday that a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that a hospital negligently failed to provide emergency power to sustain life support systems or implement an adequate evacuation plan could proceed without...

The Secretary of the Navy on Wednesday handed down letters of censure to three US Marine officers for improper performance of duties related to the reporting and investigation of the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians at...