Canadian Justice Minister Vic Toews introduced two anti-crime bills Thursday in the Canadian Parliament as the new Conservative party government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper made good on its January election promises to get tough...

Cambodia's Supreme Council of Magistracy on Thursday appointed 30 judges to preside over the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia , the joint Cambodia-UN tribunal that will try Khmer Rouge leaders for...

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Thursday that the committee will hold further hearings on the nomination of White House aide Brett Kavanaugh to the US...

Mexican President Vicente Fox has sent a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small portions of such traditionally-illegal drugs as heroin, cocaine and marijuana back to Congress, reversing a statement from his office the...

The UK High Court on Thursday rejected the petition of a group of British residents detained at Guantanamo Bay appealing against the government's decision not to press the US government to release the detainees....

US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has accepted the jury's recommendation and sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life in prison without the possibility of release. After determining that Moussaoui was eligible for the death...

The US House of Representatives has passed the Lobbying Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 , a bill to regulate lobbying and ethics, by a narrow 217-213 margin . The bill imposes stricter...

Leading Thursday's international brief, US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell has denied claims by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe that the US and other Western governments were intentionally destroying Zimbabwe's international reputation, instead blaming poor government...

As the UN Committee Against Torture prepares to hold its review of US compliance with international laws banning torture, a US State Department lawyer said Thursday that the US does not outsource torture and claimed that allegations...

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that, under the Federal Trade Commission Act, would impose stiff civil penalties and authorize jail sentences for officials from energy companies that engage in price gouging when selling...