The commissioner of Israel's prison service Ya'akov Ganot told a Knesset committee on Wednesday that Israeli detention facilities were equipped to hold as many as 2,300 anti-pullout activists predicted to take part in illegal protests against the...

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Wednesday that a bill he is co-sponsoring to end asbestos injury lawsuits is unlikely to receive a vote in the Senate before the August recess. The statement comes after...

Thailand's National Human Rights Commission said Wednesday that a security decree passed by the Cabinet Tuesday giving Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra new power to deal with an insurgency in the country's Muslim south should be abolished....

According to a working draft of the new Iraqi constitution obtained Tuesday by the New York Times, Islamic law would play a strong role in the Iraqi legal and political system and women's rights would be cut back. Under...

The Canadian Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would make Canada the fourth nation in the world to legalize gay marriage after the Netherlands, Belgium, and, most recently, Spain . Bill C-38 , which passed the House of...

In the wake of an Italian judge's decision last month to issue warrants for 13 CIA operatives wanted in connection with the kidnapping of radical Muslim cleric Abu Omar off the streets of Milan...

Nine senior staff members of the Iraqi Special Tribunal , each former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party , were dismissed on Tuesday, apparently at the instance of Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and former Iraqi exile...

Former Philadelphia City Treasurer Corey Kemp was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for corruption. Kemp was convicted in May 2005 on 20 counts of accepting kickbacks during his time in office that included...

Interest groups from across the political spectrum are weighing in with their reactions to the White House nomination of Judge John G. Roberts to the US Supreme Court . Conservative groups have largely welcomed the announcement. C. Boyden...

President Bush's Tuesday evening nomination of conservative federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts to the US Supreme Court has predictably drawn praise from Republicans and calls for caution from Democrats, who vow to examine Robert's record...