A US district judge in Tucson Friday dismissed a controversial case against two humanitarians arrested in July 2005 for aiding illegal immigrants they found in need of emergency medical attention in the Arizona desert. At the time of their arrests, Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss were volunteering for No More Deaths , a group that [...]

Egyptian-mediated negotiations to free an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian Hamas militants are ongoing, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told a Cairo newspaper Saturday. The capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit by Hamas in Gaza in June prompted Israel to detain about 30 Palestinian lawmakers in retaliation, including nearly a third of the Hamas-led Palestinian cabinet. [...]

A report released Saturday by OpenTheGovernment.org , a private monitoring group, reveals what it described as further expansion of US government secrecy notwithstanding an increase in the number of classified government documents unsealed in 2005. In comparison to 2004, the public's use of the Freedom of Information Act in 2005 increased and the number of [...]

The ruling military junta in Myanmar will resume negotiations for a new constitution in the second week of October, junta spokesman Lt. Gen. Thein Sein announced Saturday. The constitutional convention was suspended on January 31 , with delegates postponing talks until the end of the year to allow farmers to cultivate their harvests. While delegates [...]

A Lebanese prosecutor Saturday charged six suspects – four held in Lebanon and two in Germany – with attempted murder after they were arrested in connection with a plot to blow up trains in Germany one month ago. The two suspects held in Germany, a Lebanese and a Syrian, were charged by the Lebanese prosecutor [...]

Abigail Salisbury : "I went to spend my summer working in Prishtina, the capital city of Kosovo, because I thought that there I would gain some valuable experience which would be relevant to my work toward the International and Comparative Law Certificate. While many internationals (the generic term given to the foreigners working in Prishtina) [...]

A US Army investigator has recommended that four US soldiers face the death penalty if they are convicted on charges of murdering Iraqi detainees according to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy of the report Saturday. Lt. Col. James P. Daniel Jr. concluded that several aggravating factors contributed to the capital punishment recommendation. During [...]

EU Justice and Migration Commissioner Franco Frattini has told a Spanish newspaper that Spain contributed to a recent spate of illegal immigration between Africa and Europe by a three-month amnesty program for illegals that it launched in February 2005. Frattini said the country's loose approach to illegal immigration has spurred a four-fold increase in the [...]

The US military on Saturday formally relinquished control of the Abu Ghraib prison to the Iraqi government, according to an Iraqi spokesperson, after it was emptied of US detainees last week. The spokesperson said the government has not decided how it will use the prison in the future. Historically, Abu Ghraib was used by former [...]

A federal judge on Friday issued an order directing Ohio voters to ignore threats of criminal penalties on voter registration forms and instructions , saying that new state registration rules which took effect in May after the February passage of the controversial HB 3 election reform bill by the Republican-dominated Ohio Legislature may violate the [...]