US military officials announced Saturday that four American soldiers will not face criminal charges for burning the bodies of two Taliban rebels in Afghanistan , though they will be subject to disciplinary action. The US Department of Defense...
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The head of the Council of Europe investigation into possible secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe said Friday that the existence of large detention centers for US terror detainees in the region was unlikely. In a statement...
Hundreds of supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood complained of unwarranted arrests Saturday during the runoff for the second round of Egyptian parliamentary elections , alleging that at least 270 were detained outside of polling...
Syria agreed Friday to allow UN investigators to question five unidentified Syrian officials at the Vienna UN offices in connection with the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri ....
The scope of the US Department of Justice probe into the dealings of former high-powered Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff may implicate more public officials than previously anticipated, according to a report by...
The office of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced Friday that it does not expect to pursue state criminal charges against Maurice "Hank" Greenberg , former AIG chairman and CEO....
Projet de loi relatif à la lutte contre le terrorisme et portant dispositions diverses relatives à la sécurité et aux contrôles frontaliers . Read the full text of the draft law [PDF, in...
The ailing former senior Iraqi intelligence officer who in late October became the first witness to testify in the trial of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has died, the chief prosecutor of the case before the Iraqi...
Russian President Valdimir Putin has said he will consider amendments to a bill overwhelmingly approved by the lower house of the Russian parliament Wednesday that would greatly increase state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs)...
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Thursday that media reports that US CIA planes had made secret illegal stops in Spain while carrying terror suspects were unjustified as the US stopovers were legal, but promised to check...
