Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday clarified vague portions of his national reconciliation proposal , saying that no insurgent responsible for the death of Iraqis or coalition forces would be entitled to amnesty....

The US Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal judge in Detroit to dismiss a lawsuit brought by eleven Democrats from the US House of Representatives seeking to halt the implementation of the Deficit Reduction...

The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a request by three British bankers wanted in the US in connection with the Enron scandal to stay their extradition. David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew, and Giles...

The FBI on Monday dropped its investigation into the library records of a Connecticut library, concluding that the identity of patrons using a particular computer last February no longer posed a threat to national security. Four librarians...

An investigative committee for Thailand's Attorney General's office on Tuesday unanimously recommended that five of Thailand's political parties be dissolved because of fraud surrounding an April general election . The recommendation includes the ruling Thai Rak Thai [party...

The Chinese government said Tuesday that a law imposing fines on media organizations reporting national emergencies without gaining local government approval could go into effect by October. The law, which has been sent to the Standing Committee of the...

A group of media organizations has asked a Canadian judge to consider vacating a media blackout in the cases of 17 men arrested in Ontario earlier this month and charged with a terrorist plot. Under Canada's Criminal...

US District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. halted all executions in Missouri Monday until Missouri can ensure that inmates do not suffer when given a lethal injection. Gaitan gave the Missouri Department of Corrections until July 15 to...

Lawyers for two of the seven men indicted last week on terrorism charges for allegedly conspiring to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI headquarters in Miami said Monday that their clients were entrapped by...

Saddam Hussein and at least six co-defendants will face a second trial beginning August 21 for allegedly killing 100,000 Kurds during the so-called "Anfal" operation in northern Iraq in the 1980s, the Iraqi High...