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Lodi (CA) father and son indictment for making false statements to the FBI in connection with terrorist matters, US Department of Justice, June 16, 2005 [indicting a father and son for allegedly lying to the FBI about the son attending...

Shirin Ebadi , a human-rights lawyer who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, spoke out Monday against the introduction of special Islamic tribunals in Canada. A Muslim group in Ontario proposed setting up the tribunals to settle family...

The Lahore High Court in Pakistan released 12 men Friday with ties to a highly publicized gang-rape, including six men who were convicted of rape and 6 members of the village council. The case centers around Mukhtar...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) Thursday called for a ban on child labor in mines and quarries as the focus for the World Day Against Child Labour on June 12. The agency has...

A British court Wednesday began a retrial of suspected Afghan warlord Faryadi Sarwar Zardad in what may be the first instance of a country prosecuting an alleged torturer for crimes committed abroad. Zardad is believed to have...

A father and son have been arrested and charged with lying to federal agents after the son admitted to attending an al-Qaida training camp in Pakistan, the FBI said on Tuesday. Hamid Hayat, 22, is charged with...

Detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay claim they were sold into captivity, according to new US government documents released to AP under the Freedom of Information Act . The CIA and the US Defense, State and Justice...

Human Rights Watch accused the US Tuesday of allowing two US citizens of Pakistani descent to be tortured and abused while being held in Pakistan as suspected al Qaeda members. Brothers Kashan and Zain...

At the United Nations, Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan introduced a draft resolution Monday to expand the UN Security Council from 15 to 25 countries and give themselves permanent seats. Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed changes to the...

AP is reporting that Newsweek magazine has officially retracted its May 9 story that US personnel at Guantanamo had desecrated the Koran. Editors at the magazine began publicly backtracking from the story Sunday night after a source...