Lawyers from the US Department of Justice on Monday appealed a federal court decision that allowed a challenge to the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program to go forward, arguing to the...

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was questioned Monday by Judge Alejandro Solis about the assassination of General Carlos Prats shortly after Pinochet came to power following a 1973 coup [BBC...

Detainees at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay have used items found in their cells to attack military guards hundreds of times, according to Pentagon memos released through a Freedom of Information Act...

Wilkinson v Kitzinger & Ors EWHC 2022 (Fam), July 31, 2006 [denying a bid by a British lesbian couple married in Canada to have their marriage recognized by British law, saying that the traditional British definition of marriage refers...

Resolution 1696, UN Security Council, July 31, 2006, . Read the full text of the resolution....

Immigration Report, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, July 31, 2006 [examining nearly 300,000 immigration cases from 1994-2005, and finding that ten percent of US immigration judges denied asylum in 86 percent of their cases, while another ten percent of immigration judges...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Monday "strongly condemned" the weekend Israeli bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana that resulted in the deaths of some 60 civilians - including 37...

Two British men who face fraud charges in the US related to the Enron scandal are searching for new lawyers, according to papers filed Monday by counsel for a third British man also facing trial. The...

Several hundred thousand protestors camped out in Mexico City's major business district Monday to rally against the defeat of presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the country's July 2 election ...

Corruption charges filed last week against former Malawi President Bakili Muluzi have been dropped after the head of the country's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) was suspended, Malawi's director of public prosecutions said Monday. President...