France should acknowledge crimes it committed as the ruler of Algeria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika reiterated Saturday. France ruled the North African country for more...

Morocco state news agency MAP reported Friday that a criminal court in Salé, a twin-city of the capital Rabat, has sentenced three former Guantanamo Bay detainees to prison for their involvement in terror activities....

The United States Saturday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning an Israeli attack on Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip on November 8 that resulted in the deaths of at least 18...

The German Defense Ministry has denied allegations that a suspected al-Qaida operative was beaten while in military custody. German newspaper Die Welt Saturday quoted a Ministry report that 32 operatives of Germany's KSK special forces ...

A European Parliament lawmaker visiting Poland as a member of a Council of Europe team holding hearings on that nation's role in the operation of secret CIA prisons [JURIST news...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour warned on Friday that continued movements by armed militias in the western region of Darfur will lead to more atrocities against ethnic African civilians....

The US Federal Bureau of Prisons has assigned former Enron chief financial officer Andrew Fastow to a federal detention center in Oakdale, Louisiana , according a new inmate listing on the FBP website....

UK Chancellor Gordon Brown called for broader race hate laws after a British jury Friday acquitted two British National Party (BNP) members Friday of inciting racial hatred. The charges stemmed from 2004...

The United Nations inquiry commission investigating the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri Friday delivered a revised draft proposal to the Lebanese government on the establishment of an international tribunal to try...

Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action v. Granholm, By Any Means Necessary, US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Southern Division, November 10, 2006 [complaint challenging the constitutionality of Proposal 2, approved by Michigan voters to restrict affirmative action...