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...

US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Porter Goss Tuesday denied allegations that the CIA engages in torture when interrogating detainees. In an ABC-TV interview , Goss said that the agency's interrogation tactics did "not come close" torture...

Syria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday called for evidence implicating Syrians in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri to be scrutinized in the wake of an admission by Syrian witness, Hosam Taher...

One of Canada's top law firms has agreed to pay a $30 million settlement to former client Hollinger International for its role in failing to act in Hollinger's best interest during a series of now infamous transactions...

France's National Assembly on Tuesday voted 373-27 in favor of a new anti-terrorism bill that will increase the use of video surveillance and allow police more time to question terror suspects. The...

War crimes prosecutors and former Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic were in rare agreement Tuesday in their opposition to a proposal by judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday handed down a unanimous decision in Lincoln Property v. Roche , reversing the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, holding that a lawsuit filed...

The Australian House of Representatives passed the federal government's anti-terrorism bill Monday night, without amendments requested by a coalition Senate committee and by members of the Labor Party. The committee recommended [JURIST...

Arab news channel Aljazeera is considering taking legal action against President George W. Bush, after disclosures that the US president allegedly suggested bombing the broadcaster's headquarters in Doha, Qatar, in the spring of 2004. Last week, two...