UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak told AP on Sunday that multiple sources have confirmed that the US detained terror suspects at the US military base on the British island of Diego Garcia between 2002 and...

Election observers from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Monday expressed reservations about the fairness of Russia's weekend presidential election, pointing to media restrictions and alleged polling irregularities that hampered opposition candidates. In a...

A suspect in the assassination attempt against East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta turned himself in late Saturday, several weeks after the February 11 attempt on Horta's life outside his home. The suspect, Amaro da Costa, was...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a lower court decision rejecting the Bush administration's attempt to exempt the US Navy from environmental laws so that the...

Algerian Justice Minister Tayeb Belaiz on Sunday confirmed that officials from the country had visited the US base at Guantanamo Bay to identify Algerian detainees, and said that although the country would accept repatriation of the...

US Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), chairman of the House Select Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that the House of Representatives could vote on compromise surveillance legislation as early as next week. In an appearance on CNN's Late Edition, Reyes said...

A spokesperson for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has criticized the Iraqi Presidency Council for refusing to approve the executions of two defendants sentenced to death last year by the Iraqi High Tribunal for their roles in...

The US District Court for the Northern District Illinois has refused to dissolve an injunction barring the enforcement of Illinois' Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995 , which would require physicians to notify the parents of...

The US Department of Defense has said that two charges have been referred against Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi for his alleged connections to al Qaeda. Al-Darbi is the brother-in-law of...

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic has said that Serbia plans to ask the International Court of Justice to determine whether the Kosovo's recent declaration of independence "represents a violation of international...