The US House of Representatives has passed a $491 billion defense measure, HR 1815 , which among other things leaves any decisions on the placement of women in war zones up to the Pentagon pending Congressional approval. House...

Leading Thursday's international brief, government lawyers for the Royal Commission for Corruption Control have begun arguments before the commission in the case against former Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba , former Foreign Minister Prakash Man Singh and...

As the search for bodies entered its 8th day Thursday, a Chilean military prosecutor said the officers commanding 46 teenage soldiers killed in a blizzard during a training march in the Andes face possible charges and prison sentences. According...

Log of (and links to) FBI records of interviews with Guantanamo detainees in 2002 and 2003 concerning treatment of prisoners and of the Koran by US personnel [containing allegations that military jailers flushed the Koran down the toilet and in...

The National Conference of State Legislatures , a body which tracks state law developments, has found 26 states are considering new proposals for voting laws. The most important issue under review in many states is proof of identity...

With the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre approaching, NATO Wednesday and Thursday intensified its search for Bosnian war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic with raids by US troops on the homes of his family members...

The US Marine Corps said Thurday that all charges against 2nd Lt. Ilario G. Pantano , accused of murdering two Iraqis during a vehicle stop, would be dropped. The statement out of Camp Lejeune in North Carolina...

The Commissioner of the UN International Independent Investigation into the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri arrived in Beirut on Thurday to begin his inquiries. Commissioner Detlev Mehlis, a veteran German prosecutor, was authorized by...

Alleged Real IRA member Sean Gerard Hoey was formally charged Thursday with murdering 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bombing , the worst terrorist attack in Northern Ireland history. Hoey had been being held for earlier...

As the monthlong UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament comes to a close this Friday, the US is being criticized for its stance on nuclear development and deployment. One US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the US...