During a hearing in a high-security Madrid court Tuesday, defendants in the largest trial of accused members of Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) refused to answer any questions regarding their alleged crimes or their involvement in the pro-Basque...

Leaders of Bosnia's three main ethnic groups Tuesday agreed to a deal on revisions to that country's constitution that would consolidate governmental power in a strong national government. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lauded the...

Three Bahraini citizens, released from Guantanamo Bay earlier this month, announced Thursday their intention to sue the United States government for detaining them for over four years without a trial at the prison facility....

A UN General Assembly committee on Thursday approved a resolution that reasserted the UN's concern over the alleged human rights violations occurring in North Korea . In passing the resolution, the committee expressed its...

Lawyers for Morgan Tsvangirai , opposition leader in Zimbabwe , on Thursday petitioned that country's high court to hear Tsvangirai's legal challenge to President Mugabe's 2002 election victory. As leader of the Movement for Democratic Change...

The Jordanian government said Tuesday that it is drafting tough new antiterrorism legislation that would allow suspected terrorists to be held indefinitely and, in very broad terms, would impose penalties on any individual who "would expose the...

Chief Lebanese investigative judge Elias Eid on Tuesday refused to release two former high ranking Lebanese military officials implicated in the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri . The two former officials - former head of...

Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori lost his appeal in a Chilean court Tuesday in his legal effort to be released from custody as he fights his extradition to Peru on charges of corruption...

In a meeting Tuesday with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) , Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito distanced himself from a 1985 statement in which he asserted his belief that the...

The US Senate on Tuesday passed a compromise amendment to the 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill that would curtail, but not totally cut off, Guantanamo Bay detainees' access to the federal court system...