French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said that despite widespread protests he remains committed to a proposed labor law that will make it easier for companies to fire workers under the age of 26. Villepin...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday announced the creation of a new National Security Division at the Department of Justice, bringing "under one umbrella the Department's primary national security elements" as authorized by the...

A US Vietnam-era deserter is being held at a military prison in California after being arrested late last week while crossing the border from Canada. Allen Abney, 56, deserted the US Marine Corps and fled to Canada in 1968...

A military court-martial is set to begin Monday for US Army dog handler Sgt. Michael J. Smith, facing 14 counts of misconduct for using unmuzzled dogs to abuse detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003 and...

US District Judge Leonie Brinkema stunned courtroom observers Monday by calling a recess in the September 11 hijacking trial of Zacarias Moussaoui Monday after being informed that government lawyers had coached witnesses in the case. The...

Nigerian lawyers have begun a two-day boycott of the country's courts in protest at what they say is "failure of the government to comply with court orders and the violation of human rights." Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) ...

Turkey has urged European countries to reexamine their religious defamation laws and ensure that they protect Muslims in the wake of the Muhammad cartoons controversy . At a weekend conference of EU foreign ministers in Austria, Turkish...

The Supreme Court of Indonesia has denied the appeal of pro-Indonesia militia leader Eurico Guterres for charges stemming from his involvement in massacres that occurred during the 1999 violence in East...

Russian Foreign Ministry officials confirmed Monday that they had received a letter written by Slobodan Milosevic on March 8 complaining about his medical care while in prison at The Hague and pressed for Russian medical experts...

Eight people have been charged in Zimbabwe with plotting the assassination of President Robert Mugabe following the arrests of 15 suspects on Friday. Several members of the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) [party...