British Home Secretary John Reid asked the Court of Appeal on Monday to overturn a ruling that terrorism suspects cannot be detained without charge under so-called control orders , arguing that a judgment last...

Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute is set for Wednesday's start of the official legal count of ballots cast in Sunday's disputed presidential election after preliminary results led to the two main...

The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a lower court's order that a 29-foot cross honoring Korean War veterans be removed from city-owned property in San Diego. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy , who oversees...

Nepal's Maoist communist party announced Monday it is suspending its "People's Courts" that have been running in urban areas of Nepal, including the capital Kathmandu. Maoist supreme commander Prachanda announced the suspension in a statement amidst national...

Iraqi Shiite leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim , head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , said Monday that he would like the amnesty provision of the proposed national reconciliation plan [text and press...

A Chinese Cabinet official said Monday that a draft law imposing fines on media organizations for covering sudden emergencies without approval from the local government would also apply to international news organizations. It is not clear, however,...

A US military lawyer for David Hicks said the US government cannot legally prosecute the Australian-born Guantanamo detainee again because a trial would constitute double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution. The...

Former Chadian president Hissene Habre will face trial in Senegal on charges that he committed torture, mass killings, and other abuses in the 1980s, leaders of the African Union decided at an...

Federal prosecutors in Charlotte charged former US Army soldier Steven Green with murder and rape Monday in connection with the death of an Iraqi woman and three family members in Mahmudiya in March. US Army Maj. Gen. James Thurman,...

Bolivian President Evo Morales may be forced to compromise with a special assembly that will rewrite the country's constitution after Morales' Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS) apparently failed to...