A European Union lawmaker calling for the US to close its detention center at Guantanamo Bay suggested Thursday that it should be replaced with an international criminal tribunal to hear the cases of the approximately 450 alleged terror suspects now detained. European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Elmar Brok told German TV news program Tagesschau [...]

Israel's High Court of Justice , the Supreme Court of Israel sitting as a court of first instance in cases regarding state actions, on Thursday ordered the state to take down a five-kilometer section of the West Bank security barrier that separates Israelis from Palestinians. The Court found that the barrier section which surrounds the [...]

The US government has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of New Jersey against New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber and other New Jersey officials, seeking to stop them seeking information from telecommunications companies on whether they cooperated with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its domestic surveillance program by [...]

The UN Security Council on Thursday voted to extend the mandate of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission probing the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri for an additional year until mid-June 2007. The Council's vote follows the recommendation of Serge Brammertz, deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and head [...]

A Chinese court Thursday sentenced Yang Xiaoging, a reporter for the state-run China Industrial Economy News , to one year in prison after finding him guilty of extortion. Xiaoging wrote articles about official corruption, accusing local Communist Party official Yang Jianxin of stealing state assets. Xiaoging's wife, Gong Jie, plans to appeal the ruling immediately, [...]

A federal grand jury has handed up another indictment against South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park , charging him Wednesday with lying to the FBI about his role in the adoption of the 1995 UN Security Council Resolution 986 , which established the now-defunct Iraqi Oil-for-Food Program . The one-sentence indictment accuses Park of making false [...]

Yemeni officials on Thursday called for a second investigation into last week's detainee suicides by one Yemeni and two Saudi Arabians held at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay , saying the deaths exemplify the "inhumane conditions of detainees" at Guantanamo. The three men reportedly hung themselves in their cells with bedsheets and cloths, [...]

Sudanese Justice Minister Mohammed al-Mardi insisted Thursday that the International Criminal Court does not have jurisdiction to investigate war crimes committed in the volatile Darfur region and said that Sudanese officials would not submit to questioning by ICC prosecutors in their investigation into crimes against humanity in Darfur . Mardi said that Sudanese courts are [...]

Responding to public outrage in the UK over the possibility of parole within six years for a sex offender convicted earlier this week, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer said on Wednesday's BBC TV program Question Time that judges are not to be blamed over the sentencing issue. Lord Falconer [...]

The US Supreme Court handed down four decisions Thursday, including Hudson v. Michigan where the Court held 5-4 that evidence collected under a search warrant is admissible even when police officers failed to knock before entering a home. The Court upheld a Michigan court ruling which determined that evidence seized during a search of Booker [...]