Officials in Norway have indicted three men on terrorism-related charges, according to a statement by the national prosecutor Tuesday. The three men were indicted for their alleged roles in the September 2006...

US government secrecy increased in 2006, according to the Secrecy Report Card 2007 released over the weekend by OpenTheGovernment.org . The report cited an increased reliance on national security letters (NSL) [CRS backgrounder,...

Secrecy Report Card 2007, OpenTheGovernment.org, September 1, 2007 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in...

A Moscow District Court on Tuesday upheld the legality of the city's ban on gay pride parades , ruling that the city's 2007 prohibition against the Moscow Pride event was legal under Russian law and the...

Indonesian prosecutors announced Tuesday the breakdown of court-ordered settlement negotiations with lawyers representing former Indonesian President Haji Mohammad Suharto . Prosecutors will instead proceed in court with the government's civil lawsuit against Suharto for...

Six foreign judges on Fiji's Court of Appeal submitted their resignations Monday, accusing the military government-appointed chief justice Anthony Gates of interfering with the court's functions by not consulting the judges about their availability when arranging sittings. The judges,...

The Appeals Chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal on Tuesday upheld the death sentences of three defendants convicted for their roles in the slaughter of ten of thousands of Kurds during the 1988 Anfal campaign...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday released new documents describing crimes committed by US soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan which show a pattern of US troops failing to follow...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon denounced US immigration policies during his first state of the union address Sunday, promising to fight for the rights of Mexicans living in the US and protesting the "unilateral measures"...

The Supreme Court of Israel Tuesday ordered the Israeli government to redraw the route of its West Bank security barrier near the Palestinian village of Bilin within a "reasonable period." Bilin residents...