US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) previewed a range of confirmation questions for controversial US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers Wednesday. In a letter , he told Miers she...

Lebanese prosecutors have charged two men in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri , sources reported Wednesday. The two men, brothers Ahmad and Mahmoud Abdel-Al, were both named last week by a report [text; JURIST...

A German court on Wednesday found four Middle Eastern men guilty of links to al Qaeda and of plotting to attack Jewish targets in Germany, and the four were sentenced to between five and eight years in prison. The...

The British Cabinet included a plan to ban smoking in enclosed public places as part of its Health Improvement Bill Wednesday, exempting from the prohibition pubs and bars that don't serve food. The Department of Health [official...

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy presented the country's anti-terrorism bill to the Cabinet Wednesday, rejecting claims that the provisions of the bill would infringe on civil rights and create a police state. The bill, proposed...

Amnesty International condemned Spain and Morocco for human rights violations against all migrants and asylum-seekers of sub-Saharan origin Wednesday. Immigrants attempting to use Morocco as a conduit to Europe have recently met increased security forces along the...

Certification of the final results of the referendum on the draft Iraqi constitution, Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq press briefing, October 25, 2005. Excerpt :Ladies and gentlemen, today the constitutional referendum has completed in Iraq and we announced...

Defense lawyers representing Saddam Hussein have announced that they will boycott the Iraqi Special Tribunal , following through on a threat to boycott made after one of the defense lawyers for a Hussein...

A federal judge Tuesday upheld the conviction of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart for conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists (18 USC 2339A), denying a post-trial motion for acquittal. Stewart was convicted ...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said that he is willing to change controversial shoot-to-kill provisions in proposed anti-terror legislation . Howard also said that the legislation need not be introduced next week, but...