Military leaders in Myanmar on Saturday announced that Win Aung, Myanmar's former head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , has been put before a special tribunal at the Insein jail to face charges of abusing...

John Bolton , the US ambassador to the United Nations (UN) , said Friday that the US remains concerned about Syrian government interference with the UN probe into the February 2005 assassination...

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Dennis Hastert (R-IL) on Friday announced his support for a deal reached earlier this week by Senate Republicans and the White House on long-term renewal of the USA...

The French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) , an umbrella organisation of French Muslim groups, said Friday it will sue several French newspapers that republished controversial caricatures of Muhammad which were originally printed in...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran may reconsider its participation in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but would not immediately withdraw from the pact. Speaking on the anniversary of...

Former Connecticut governor John G. Rowland was released from federal prison Friday after serving ten months of a one year sentence he received after pleading guilty to corruption charges ...

American Bar Association president Michael S. Greco said Friday that American civil liberties were under stress in a time of conflict, but that policymakers should resist the temptation to "take shortcuts with the Constitution." He made his...

ACORN v. Blanco, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, February 9, 2006 [lawsuit alleging that Louisiana's emergency election plan for New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina will disenfranchise or severely burden the franchise of thousands of displaced...

Revised Interim Guidelines Concerning Free Exercise of Religion in the Air Force, United States Air Force, February 9, 2006 . Read the full text of the guidelines. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...

Saddam Hussein defense lawyer and former head of the Jordanian Lawyers Association Saleh al-Armouti said Friday that Hussein has claimed that the United States had offered him life in exile "like Napoleon" if he would use...