The US government has formally requested the extradition from Canada of Canadian citizen Abdullah Khadr , a week after indicting him on charges of procuring weapons to be used by al-Qaida against American forces in Afghanistan in 2003. Khadr, the son of alleged al-Qaida financier Ahmed Said Khadr and brother of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [...]

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Ugandan General Court Martial (GCM) Chairman Elly Tumwine has gone ahead with the trial of over 20 suspects accused of collaborating with Ugandan opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye on charges of terrorism and illegal possession of firearms despite a Ugandan Constitutional Court ruling that the proceedings are unconstitutional. The 20 men, [...]

Previously unpublished photographs and video depicting alleged abuse of prisoners by US personnel at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison were shown on Australian television Wednesday. In an effort to expose "the extent of the horror that occurred at Abu Ghraib," SBS television's Dateline program showed images of blood-soaked prisoners who had been tortured or shot and [...]

The number of alleged international terrorism suspects named in a centralized US database has more than quadrupled since the list's inception in 2003, according to a report in Wednesday's Washington Post. The list, compiled by the National Counterterrorism Center based on information from the CIA, FBI, NSA and other agencies, began with 75,000 names and [...]

A Jordan military court on Wednesday sentenced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the alleged head of al Qaeda in Iraq, and eight other men to death for conspiring to attack several sites in Jordan with explosives and toxic chemicals. Al-Zarqawi and three of the defendants were sentenced in absentia, but the other five, including the mastermind [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says it's high time for universities to proscribe not only discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, handicap or disability, age, or sexual orientation, but also discrimination based on political opinion… Have you seen the movie “Good Night, and Good Luck” [...]

Western businesses burned and three people were killed Wednesday as Pakistanis took to the streets in a third day of protests over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad . A man was shot dead in Lahore as violent clashes with police erupted during a rally of 1,500 students outside a university. In Peshawar near the Afghanistan [...]

Microsoft must provide a written answer to EU complaints that it has failed to comply with an antitrust ruling against the software giant by midnight European time Wednesday or risk daily fines of up to 2 million euros ($2.38 million US). The European Commission (EC) , however, has branded 71 of the 100 files relating [...]

British MPs voted Tuesday by an overwhelming margin to ban smoking in all public enclosed spaces beginning in the summer of 2007. Prime Minister Tony Blair , Chancellor Gordon Brown , and Home Secretary Charles Clark were the among the Labor MPs who voted for a full ban instead of the limited version of the [...]

US senators late Tuesday failed to overcome an objection effectively killing a bill designed to avoid costly asbestos litigation by creating a special fund to compensate asbestos victims . The objection, raised by Senator John Ensign (R-NV) and supported by fiscal conservatives , invoked a budgetary rule barring legislation that would up US government spending [...]