Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul has taken the unusual step of criticizing the state case against Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk , calling his prosecution for "public denigration of Turkish identity" contrary to...

A top UN expert has accused coalition forces in Iraq of purposefully denying food and water to civilians as a means of driving out insurgent strongholds. Jean Ziegler , UN special rapporteur on food rights, told reporters Friday...

A member of Iraq's De-Baathification Committee announced Monday that arrest warrants have been issued for former Iraqi defense minister Hazem Shaalan and 13 other former defense minister officials. Shaalan was defense minister under former interim...

The Sudanese government said Monday it had decided to allow troops from neighboring Uganda to cross its borders to chase down wanted leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army . The announcement comes one week after the International Criminal...

A UN human rights expert Monday said the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) that will soon be trying Saddam Hussein did not meet international standards and should be replaced by an independent UN body, and criticized US and UK anti-terror...

The Iraqi Electoral Commission announced Monday that Iraqi prisoners will be allowed to vote in the upcoming constitutional referendum . Officials told reporters that ballot boxes will be sent to area prisons, and all Iraqi...

The Takamatsu High Court in Japan Wednesday upheld a lower court decision to dismiss a lawsuit against Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi over his visits to the Yasukuni shrine . The shrine was founded in 1869...

Amid efforts to pass legislation that would impose restrictions on the detention and interrogation of terror suspects, more allegations have been made of detainee mistreatment at US facilities in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. Army...

In an interview Tuesday with CNN's Lou Dobbs, New York Times reporter Judith Miller called the 85 days she spent in Virginia's Alexandria Detention Facility demeaning and lonely, and defended her decision to...

Former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore has announced that he will run for governor of Alabama in 2006, seeking the Republican nomination against incumbent Governor Bob Riley . Moore gained...