Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has dismissed as "nonsense" allegations by former Iraqi Prime Minister and current parliamentary candidate Iyad Allawi that human rights abuses by Iraqi Shiites are as bad as they were...

The US Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed a federal appeals court decision that erased the conviction and death sentence of a dual US and British citizen for setting a fire in Ohio that killed a toddler...

Four Ethiopians arrested during violent protests of the country's May elections said Monday that they will begin a hunger strike to voice opposition to their detentions. Three of the detainees are Coalition for Unity and Democracy [party...

Britain's Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has asked Home Secretary Charles Clarke to approve an investigation into the way Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair handled the July subway shooting of Brazilian...

A top European Union justice official said Monday that EU voting rights could be suspended for any of the 25 bloc nations that are found to have operated secret CIA detention centers for US terror detainees . EU...

China's former minister of land and natural resources, Tian Fengshan , was charged Monday with accepting bribes of nearly 5 million yuan, or $619,000. Tian has been in custody since 2004 when he was removed from...

Senators in the Parliament of Australia tabled a report Monday recommending changes to proposed anti-terror laws . The current proposal permits suspects to be detained up to 14 days without...

Aung San Suu Kyi , the detained pro-democracy leader of Myanmar - formerly Burma - has had her house arrest extended for an unconfirmed time period by the country’s military government, according to a...

Over 100 Ugandan lawyers went on strike Monday to show displeasure with the Ugandan Attorney General and his involvement in possible military attempts to influence the trial of opposition leader Kizza Besigye . The Ugandan Law Society ...

Senegal's foreign minister said Sunday that former Chad dictator Hissene Habre , wanted in Belgium for alleged human rights abuses committed during his 1982-90 rule of the north-central African nation, will have his fate decided by...