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The Senate Judiciary Committee has just voted 10-8 to approve President Bush's nomination of Alberto Gonzales as US Attorney General. The nomination now goes to the full Senate. AP has a background story on this morning's committee meeting here....

In Wednesday's international brief, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens says that no prosecutions will proceed against the four Britons released from Guantanamo Bay based on material gathered by UK MI5 investigators who made...

The US Defense Department has denied a published report that it has set up a new internal espionage arm to get around legal restrictions on foreign clandestine operations. The Washington Post said over the weekend that DOD had established...

An Irish appeals court Friday quashed the only criminal conviction stemming from the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed twenty-nine people and injured hundreds more in the largest terror attack in the history of the...

A week after the United States agreed to release accused terrorist Mamdouh Habib to his native Australia, the Guantanamo Bay detainee's return home is now being delayed by logistical problems centered on the US government's...

Former Argentine Navy captain Adolfo Scilingo appeared in a Spanish court Friday where he is on trial for committing genocide during Argentina's "Dirty War." In addition to genocide, Scilingo also faces 30 charges of murder, 93 of causing injury,...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez issued a presidential decree Tuesday creating a presidential and national land commission to implement the provisions of Venezuela's four year old land reform law. The law, called...

Officials from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement have begun preparations to establish their regional capital city in Rumbek, some 560 miles south of the governmental capital city of Khartoum. The establishment of an independent southern capital in Sudan was...

Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law, American University:"I have caught just bits and pieces of the Gonzales confirmation hearings for Attorney General today. In general, he does not seem to have faced especially bitter attack - on the contrary, I...

Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law American University:"One thing that is missing in the whole torture-interrogation debate is the question of who you are interrogating. Can you use a different level of interrogation on Zarqawi, for example - knowing it...