Romania has concluded an investigation into alleged secret CIA prisons located near Romanian airports in Europe's "spider's web" of CIA rendition flights , finding no evidence that the country hosted secret prisons or cooperated in rendition flights. A committee of the Romanian Senate undertook the investigation in response to allegations leveled in a Council of [...]

During a two-day European Union summit in Brussels , German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters Friday that attempts to revive the European Constitution will be delayed until 2008 and won't occur during Germany's six-month presidency of the European Council as Germany had hoped. The proposed European Constitution , which requires unanimity for passage, was rejected [...]

The UK Foreign Office on Friday took control of the case of Australian David Hicks , an accused Taliban member who has been detained at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay for over four years. The UK High Court has ruled that Britain should grant citizenship to Hicks because Hicks' mother is a British [...]

The kickback fraud case against leading class action law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman has hit unexpected delays as five judges from the US District Court for the Central District of California , which covers Los Angeles, have recused themselves from the case. The five recusals have been attributed to owning stock in a [...]

US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) has threatened to subpoena administration documents on its warrantless domestic spying program if US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales does not respond to Specter's requests to answer questions on domestic spying and a host of other issues, including presidential signing statements and last month's FBI raid on Rep. [...]

The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a 15-year-old girl can enter into a common-law marriage, remanding a case involving the common-law marriage between a 38-year Willis Rouse and a teenage girl for a lower court to determine the validity of their marriage. The appellate court overruled a decision by a lower court that [...]

An appeals court in Japan on Friday dismissed the appeal of a lawsuit brought in 1997 by 42 Chinese plaintiffs against the Japanese government and ten Japanese corporations seeking compensation for forced labor, saying the statute of limitations has expired on claims arising out of events that happened during World War II. The Court acknowledged [...]

The Maryland American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed a class action lawsuit in Baltimore Circuit Court Thursday alleging that Baltimore police systematically arrest people and hold them for hours without charge . The lawsuit – which names Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley , present and past police [...]

The Australian Senate on Thursday narrowly voted down a motion to disallow a regulation approved by Australia Governor-General Michael Jeffrey allowing the federal government to effectively veto the Civil Unions Bill 2006 , recently passed by the legislature in the of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) federal district. The ACT bill would have placed civil [...]

Australian Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock , responding Friday to a independent review of new security laws, defended the government's power to define which groups are terrorist organizations subject to criminal penalties. The Security Legislation Review Committee , a public and independent body charged with reviewing the Security Acts dealing with terrorism, released a 262-page report Thursday [...]