The US House of Representatives has voted 379-35 to pass the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act , a bill which would increase the maximum indecency fines levied by the Federal Communications Commission [official...

A federal judge in Oregon allowed a sexual abuse lawsuit against the Catholic Church to move forward Wednesday, rejecting the Vatican's bid to dismiss the suit for lack of jurisdiction. The ruling allows a Seattle-area man to continue with...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced Thursday that Iraq's parliament has approved his nominee for the country's controversial Interior Ministry, ending a three-week stalemate between Shiite and Sunni political blocs. Nominees for the defense and national security...

Carla Del Ponte , chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has said that she will ask the UN Security Council to grant the ICTY power to apprehend former Bosnian...

Gen. Michael Hagee , commandant of the US Marine Corps, has said he will not resign amid investigations into whether Marines killed Iraqi civilians in unprovoked attacks, adding that he is responsible for the training of his troops...

A Guantanamo Bay detainee from Yemen involved in a clash with guards in May told his defense lawyer that guards had instigated the incident when they tried to handle Korans owned by detainees, the...

A military court in Syria has sentenced writer Mohammad Ghanem to six months in prison for "insulting the Syrian president, discrediting the Syrian government and fomenting sectarian unrest," a human rights group said Wednesday. The charges...

Alleged secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers involving Council of Europe member states, Legal Affairs Committee of the Council of Europe, June 7, 2006 [asserting that fourteen European countries collaborated with the US Central Intelligence Agency by taking an active...

The disciplinary committee of Spain's General Judicial Council said Wednesday that it will investigate why Spanish judge Juan Del Olmo failed to apply for an extension of the detainment of a suspect in the...

Washington's gay civil rights act took effect on Wednesday, after opponents of the legislation failed to collect enough signatures to put the bill before voters. The law rewrites Washington's Civil Rights Act to include the...