Nepal officials on Sunday released three former ministers in the cabinet of the recently-dissolved royal government after the country's Supreme Court ruled that it could find no evidence for their continued detention. Former home minister Ramesh Nath...

Defense lawyers in the Saddam Hussein trial resumed their case Monday after chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman said that four defense witnesses accused of perjury last week had been arrested and could therefore not attend...

The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees on hunger strike decreased from 89 to 18 over the weekend, US military officials said Sunday. The number of detainees on hunger strike suddenly jumped from three to 75 [JURIST...

The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) - formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal - has approved the disinterment of bodies buried in mass graves southwest of Baghdad, where forensic experts worked over the weekend to...

The American Bar Association Board of Governors voted unanimously Saturday to launch an inquiry into President Bush's frequent use of signing statements to bypass new laws because of his interpretation of...

An Iraqi lawyer related to several Iraqi civilians who were among the 24 allegedly killed by US Marines in Haditha last November denounced the US military Saturday via videotape, claiming US "compensation money" of $2,500 per victim...

The Parliament of Montenegro issued a declaration of independence Saturday on the basis of the May 21 referendum in which...

US v. I. Lewis Libby, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Reggie B. Walton, June 3, 2006 [denying Libby and his defense team access to most of the government documents they had sought because they are...

Americans United for Church and State et al. v. Prison Fellowship Ministries et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Chief Judge Robert W. Platt, June 2, 2006 [holding that a religious prison organization receiving government...

Canadian security authorities said Saturday that a major terrorist attack on Canadian targets had been thwarted by the arrests of twelve men and five youths in Ontario Friday. A spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...