The US military judge in the court-martial of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada prohibited international and constitutional law scholars from testifying Monday about the legality of the war. Watada faces charges of missing movement and...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law Monday a bill moving the Russian Constitutional Court from its current Moscow location to St. Petersburg. The bill received final parliamentary approval last month with a...

Efforts by Russian prosecutors to bring new charges against jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky raise "serious questions about the rule of law in Russia," US State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack...

Archbishop of York John Sentamu criticized the British government Monday for its latest effort to extend the current 28-day maximum detention period for terror suspects . UK Home Secretary John Reid said last week...

The Canadian government has violated native Canadian children's human rights by underfunding child-welfare services for native peoples, according to the Canadian Assembly of First Nations (AFN) . The group plans to file a complaint with the Canadian Human...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday urged the government of Lebanon to ratify an agreement with the UN to create a UN-supported international tribunal to try suspects accused of assassinating former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik...

An American Bar Association (ABA) panel has proposed revisions to its judicial code of conduct so that judges are advised to avoid impropriety but would no longer be subject to formal discipline for failing to...

Portugal is the latest country to open an investigation into alleged stopovers of secret CIA rendition flights transporting terror suspects, according to a report from state-owned news agency Lusa Monday. Last month,...

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced Monday that he has appealed to the country's Constitutional Court a recently-passed bill he fears will illegally expand the cabinet's power at the expense of the presidency. The...

Former Westar Energy CEO David Wittig was resentenced Monday to 24 months in prison, his third sentencing for charges stemming from a 2002 indictment on bank fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. In July 2003,...