The Spanish Interior Ministry announced Thursday that the country has accepted its third Guantanamo Bay detainee. The man, an Afghan national, arrived in Spain on Wednesday and will be given residency and work permits. The ministry also noted that the former-detainee has no pending charges of terrorism against him in any jurisdiction. This is the [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that no criminal charges will be brought against Bush administration officials for the firing of nine US Attorneys in 2006. In a letter sent from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich to House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-MI) , Weich detailed the findings of a two-year investigation [...]

A report released Thursday by Transparency International (TI) named Burundi as the most corrupt East-African nation, with a corruption index of 36.7 percent. Also cited by TI for having high rates of corruption were Uganda, with a rate of 33 percent, Kenya at 31.9 percent and Tanzania at 28.6 percent. The survey was expanded this [...]

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Wednesday signed a same-sex marriage bill into law. The signing ceremony comes one week after the bill was approved by the legislature , making Argentina the first Latin American nation to legalize same-sex marriage. The legislation, which includes adoption rights for same-sex couples, was approved after 14 hours of debate, [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday refused to reinstate a six-month drilling moratorium issued in May by the Obama administration in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill . Judge Martin Feldman issued a preliminary injunction against the moratorium last month, holding that the drilling [...]

The Botswana High Court ruled Wednesday that the indigenous Bushmen , or San, people will not be able to reopen a water well or dig new wells in their village in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve . The Bushmen applied for permission to use a borehole , originally dug by diamond company De Beers in [...]

A German appeals court announced Wednesday that the government’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (OPC) will be permitted to continue surveillance of members of the country’s Left political party. The decision overturned a lower court ruling , which prohibited the monitoring of a member of the Left. In its ruling the, court [...]

The Israeli Knesset on Wednesday voted 53-13 to extend a law limiting the ability of Arab-Israelis to bring Palestinian family members into Israel. The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law, first passed by the Knesset in 2002, allows only Palestinian women 25 years or older and men 35 years or older to join their families [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the country of Chad to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir during his visit to the country. Al-Bashir was charged last week by the International Criminal Court (ICC) with three counts of genocide in relation to the Darfur conflict . The genocide charges were added to seven counts of [...]

Two lawsuits were filed Wednesday seeking injunctive relief against a Fremont, Nebraska ordinance banning the hiring, harboring or renting property to illegal immigrants . The ordinance, passed by city voters in a referendum last month, requires all employers in the city to register for the E-Verify program and makes it a crime to rent to [...]