Swiss intelligence agents have been aware of secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe for nearly two months, according to documents leaked to the Swiss newspaper SonntagsBlick . According to SonntagsBlick, Swiss military intelligence [official website...

The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Hudson v. Michigan where it will decide whether police officers were justified in entering a plaintiff's home without knocking when they arrived with...

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, an Indiana truck driver accused of offering to sell names of US covert operatives to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government. Charges against Shaaban laid last...

The trial of three former police officers for the murder of prominent Ukraine opposition journalist Heorhiy Gongadze has begun in Kiev. Valeriy Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych are accused of carrying out the killing in September...

The trial of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri , charged under the UK Terrorism Act 2000 for inciting racial hatred, began in London on Monday. Hamza was arrested last May on a US extradition warrant, and...

Confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito began Monday with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) promising a "full, fair and dignified hearing," and Senate Democrats vowing to...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Monday denied requests by US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) that the money laundering charges against him either be dismissed or sent back to...

The lower house of Jordan's parliament on Sunday approved an agreement with the US which will prohibit the country from handing over Americans accused of violating international criminal law to the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The decision...

The lower house of Jordan's parliament on Sunday approved an agreement with the US which will prohibit the country from handing over Americans accused of violating international criminal law to the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The decision...

A top official at the US Department of Justice's Regime Crimes Liaison Office in Baghdad has suggested that the current trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein could end as early as June, with further trial...