British police on Tuesday charged three people with conspiracy to murder and planning to smuggle "component parts of improvised explosive devices" onto airplanes in connection with the alleged terror plot to blow up US-bound planes...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said during a one-day visit to Baghdad Tuesday that enforcement of the rule of law is essential to Iraq's future, but stressed that it was up to the country's leaders...

The prosecutor in the Libyan retrial of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor accused of infecting over 400 patients, primarily children, with the HIV virus, on Tuesday called for the death penalty in the case. The...

Saudi Arabia has released nine of 29 former Guantanamo detainees in its custody on Tuesday after investigations revealed that they had not committed any crimes. Charges are still being reviewed for the remainder. Earlier this year,...

Opposition parties in Jordan on Tuesday condemned anti-terrorism legislation approved Sunday by Jordan's National Assembly , comparing the new measures to "martial law" and voicing fear that the law will be used to curtail individual liberties....

Former Central African Republic President Ange Felix Patasse was convicted in absentia Tuesday on fraud charges and sentenced to 20 years hard labor. Patasse and four other members of his former government have been charged with embezzlement...

Two hundred families plan later this week to demand damages from SNCF , the French state-run railway system, in connection with the company's transportation of Jewish families to German concentration camps during World War II. The demand comes...

Australian legal and political observers appeared split Tuesday in the wake of the Australian government's first control order under new anti-terror laws limiting the activities of an uncharged terror suspect. A court Monday issued the order at...

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Tuesday failed to adopt a proposed rule to exempt interest groups from "electioneering communications," tying 3-3 instead. The measure, proposed earlier this month by FEC Commissioner Hans...

Guantanamo's oldest known detainee was among the five US-held prisoners transferred to Afghanistan last week, according to his lawyer who found out about the release over the weekend in a US Department of Justice e-mail. Peter King...