Egyptian police arrested 72 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday morning, according to security officials. The government accuses the organization of trying to create an Islamic theocracy, but the Brotherhood claims the crackdown...

A federal court in California sentenced two former Enron executives Wednesday to probation for their roles in Enron's manipulation of electricity supplies during the 2000-01 West Coast energy crisis. Timothy Belden , former head of...

Switzerland is launching a criminal probe into the alleged unlawful use of Swiss airspace by US agents in anti-terrorist operations after authorization Wednesday by the Swiss Federal Council , which said in a statement that there was evidence...

Former CIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and defense contractor Brent Wilkes both pleaded not guilty Wednesday to corruption charges connected with the case of former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham . Both Foggo and...

Iraq Deputy Health Minister Hakim Zamili has been arrested in an apparent security crackdown in Baghdad, according to a report by the US military Thursday. According to military officials, Zamili had been infiltrating...

Romania must return property it nationalized during the 1950s, or else pay overdue compensation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday. The judgment came...

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has achieved marked success in bringing international war criminals to justice, chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte told a conference on Thursday. Del Ponte,...

White House spokesman Tony Snow Wednesday called for the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to act on the case of Jamal Jafaar Mohammed, a Shiite lawmaker who US military intelligence [New York Times report; CNN...

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair pushed Wednesday for a half-elected, half-appointed House of Lords that would remove 92 House members who still inherit their parliamentary seats and set the number of seats at...

China is prepared to work with other countries to create an agreement that would prevent an arms race in space , Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Thursday. The statement comes amid international outcry ...