After Iran announced an end to negotiations and a resumption of its nuclear program on Monday, the International Atomic Energy Agency held an emergency meeting Tuesday in Vienna to discuss the situation and before the meeting, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei urged that negotiations be continued . European Union negotiators have been working with Iran [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said Tuesday that British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan to deport Islamic extremists is likely to result in violations of international human rights law. While such laws prohibit Britain from deporting people to a country where they may face torture or death, Blair said he planned to obtain [...]

Jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji has ended his eight-week hunger strike in response to concerns of family and friends for his deteriorating health, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said Tuesday. Ganji has been imprisoned since April 2000 and was sentenced to six years in prison in 2001 for "collecting confidential information harmful to national security [...]

A former UN official pleaded guilty Monday to US charges that he accepted close to $1 million in bribes from UN contractors in the Oil-for-Food scandal . Alexander Yakovlev, a procurement officer and the first UN official to face criminal charges, pleaded guilty to accepting and soliciting bribes, wire fraud, and money laundering after having [...]

Palestinian Chief Justice Zuhair Sourani has said he is retracting his Saturday resignation in reaction to promises made by President Mahmoud Abbas to increase protection of Palestinian courts and judges. Lawyers and judges shut down the Palestinian legal system Saturday, protesting against recent attacks on senior legal officials including a bomb attack against the homes [...]

Omar Bakri Mohammed, one of the Muslim clerics being investigated by British authorities for remarks supporting the London bombers , left the country on Saturday and is now in Lebanon. Mohammed reportedly praised insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan while vowing not to inform authorities if he learned any information about plans for future terrorist attacks. [...]

Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in a letter Monday that he intends to question him at upcoming confirmation hearings on the extent of Congress's power, specifically citing two recent cases where the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had overstepped its bounds. In [...]

Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri , an Illinois student from Qatar, filed suit in the US District Court for the District of South Carolina Monday accusing his military jailers of violating his human rights during his two years of detention at the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, South Carolina. The complaint asks the court to prevent [...]

After a sandstorm got in the way of talks yesterday, Iraqi leaders met again on Tuesday to try and iron out their last remaining differences in order to submit a constitution by the August 15 deadline. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is hosting the group, which is deadlocked over issues such as the role of Islam [...]

Microsoft announced a $7 million settlement Tuesday of its lawsuit against Scott Richter and his company, once one of the biggest spammers in the world. Last summer Richter's company also paid $50,000 in penalties and costs relating to a suit filed in New York by Attorney General Elliott Spitzer. Microsoft agreed to direct $1 million [...]