A US Navy sailor pleaded guilty Monday at a court-martial hearing in Norfolk, Virginia, to espionage, desertion, failing to properly safeguard and store classified information, copying classified information, communicating classified information to a person...

Defense lawyers for alleged terrorist Jose Padilla have indicated they will use a recent video, taken of Padilla as he was escorted by soldiers from solitary confinement to a dentist's appointment, as evidence that...

Wire services are reporting that US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has resigned, effective at the end of his recess appointment. President Bush named Bolton to the position on an...

US Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has said she plans to introduce legislation in the Senate that would prevent the US military from using cluster bombs in civilian areas by cutting off federal funding for such weapons until...

Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have called for the text of Kyrgyzstan's new constitution, adopted in November, to made publicly available after an unexplained three-week delay. Kyrgyz laws are usually published soon after they are passed. The new constitution...

A Nepali government minister indicated Sunday that the interim constitution, drafted in August , will be signed into law within a few days. The interim draft encompassing 173 articles is designed to replace the current constitution until...

A confidential report on the use of wiretap evidence being prepared for UK government ministers by officials in the Home Office has as one of its two basic options setting up a special group of judges who...

A Philippines trial court Monday convicted one US Marine and acquitted three other Marines on charges of raping a 23-year-old Filipino woman at a Navy base in Manila last year. The verdict is subject to...

The defense team for Saddam Hussein Sunday formally appealed his death sentence for crimes against humanity committed in the town of Dujail in 1982. The November 5 condemnation to death by hanging was automatically...

The government of Turkey has officially condemned an Argentinean bill that refers to the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey around the time of World War I as genocide and establishes a day of annual commemoration on...