Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said that Poland housed the main CIA secret detention facility in Europe, with approximately 100 detainees. The accusations, published in the Polish daily, Gazeta Wyborcza , are...

New Orleans Police Chief Warren Riley said Thursday that the city has fired 60 police officers and suspended 25 more for failing to show up for duty during Hurricane Katrina . Riley, who was sworn...

A New York appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that would have allowed a same-sex marriage in New York City. Earlier this year, New York City Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan had ruled [PDF...

US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Thursday that he has started a formal inquiry into the Justice Department's handling of the Jose Padilla case. Padilla, a US citizen,...

On a state visit to China during a six-day Asia tour , President Bush Sunday pressed Chinese President Hu Jintao to expand religious, political and social freedoms in the country and later suggested...

More than 200 people were arrested and one person was killed Sunday in clashes between government supporters and supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood during the second round of Egypt's parliamentary elections. The Brotherhood has been outlawed...

Iran's parliament voted Sunday to require the government to block International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors from its nuclear facilities if Iran is referred to the UN Security Council for regulatory violations. This is the second...

Former Romanian defense minister Ioan Mihai Pascu has acknowledged that US planes carrying detainees may have refueled in the country, but has denied the existence of a secret CIA-run prison there.  His comments, published Saturday in Evenimentul Zileli [media website,...

Despite curfews and added security measures French youths continued to riot in the streets Saturday night. Central Paris was calm, but for the first time since rioting by disaffected Arab and African immigrant youth began 17 nights...

A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has claimed that agents supporting Saddam Hussein murdered two defense lawyers involved in the trial of the former Iraqi president and eight co-defendants...