An Italian judge ruled Tuesday that a former CIA station chief in Milan is not protected by diplomatic immunity, upholding an arrest warrant issued for his alleged participation in the kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr [Wikipedia...

The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled Tuesday that prisoners serving life sentences can be extradited abroad, overturning a 2001 decision that prevented such prisoners from answering to charges in the US insofar as punishment there...

US Assistant Attorney General William E. Moschella defended the use of National Security Letters in a 10-page letter sent to the Chairmen of the US House and Senate Judiciary Committees Tuesday, rebutting...

The first federal Vioxx trial, in which Evelyn Irvin Plunkett is suing pharmaceutical giant Merck for the death of husband Richard “Dicky” Irvin of a heart attack in May 2001, began Tuesday with an opening statement from...

AP is reporting that Virginia Governor Mark Warner has granted clemency to Robin Lovitt , a convicted killer who would have become the 1,000th person executed in the US since the US Supreme Court reauthorized...

Observers of the trial of Saddam Hussein warned Tuesday that mounting political pressure threatens the independence and fairness of the Iraqi High Criminal Court trying the ousted Iraqi leader. A Human Rights Watch [official...

A federal court in Maryland has ruled that US law enforcement agents must obtain a warrant before obtaining information from a cell phone service on the location of a cell phone user. In an opinion written by...

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced Tuesday that he would introduce stricter immigration controls as part of the French government's response to the riots started by immigrant youth that broke out across...

The Egyptian government does not plan to allow the Muslim Brotherhood to become a legal political party even though it has so far won 76 of 444 seats by running candidates as independents in the three-phase Egyptian...

Louis Joinet, a UN official assigned to oversee the human rights conditions in Haiti , on Tuesday sharply criticized the Haitian justice system for detaining hundreds of people without charge, including Reverend Gerard Jean-Juste , a...