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Thailand may continue to hold eight leaders of last Saturday's anti-coup protest for up to 48 days, a Thai police official told Reuters Saturday. Colonel Supisarn Bhakdinarinath said that police are authorized to hold suspects without charge for 12...

A 2004 FBI memorandum appears to contradict congressional testimony by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales concerning whether he was aware of FBI "abuses" of the USA Patriot Act when he testified...

told reporters Saturday that the Australian government has given Dr. Mohammad Haneef permission to leave Australia, reversing a previous decision to place the former terror suspect under...

An Indian court Friday sentenced to death Yakub Memon, the brother of a man suspected of plotting the 1993 Mumbai bombings [BBC backgrounder, for his role in the attack that killed 257 people and injured more than 700 in...

The US Congress sent an anti-terror bill to President George Bush for signature Friday. The bill, based on recommendations by the 9/11 commission , would transfer funds to states and cities found to...

Taiwanese Foreign Minister James Huang said Friday that a national referendum on Taiwan's membership in the United Nations would proceed despite opposition from China. On Monday, the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs rejected Taiwan's fifteenth bid...

The government of Sudan said Thursday that it will appeal a US court verdict ordering it to pay $7.96 million in compensation to the families of 17 US Navy personnel killed in the 2000 al Qaeda attack on the...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that UN officials will not testify before the East Timorese-Indonesian Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) because the CTF's terms of reference allow for the possibility...

The UN Human Rights Committee Friday urged the Sudanese government to "take all appropriate measures" to guarantee that all state agents, including the military and armed militias, discontinue "widespread and systematic" violations of human rights. The recommendations,...