Myanmar's military government has arrested more than 20 peaceful demonstrators protesting the scheduled May 10 national constitutional referendum , the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) said Tuesday. The NLD also said that government security forces have detained...

The National Assembly of Pakistan unanimously adopted a resolution late Monday calling for a United Nations investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto . The resolution now goes to...

The UK Ministry of Defense confirmed Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with an Iraqi teenage civilian who was paralyzed in an accidental shooting in Basra in 2003. The plaintiff, who was 13 at the time...

At least 1200 people were executed worldwide in 2007, and 88 percent of those executions took place in five countries: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the USA, according to a report released Tuesday by...

A federal judge on Monday sentenced Samuel Israel, III, co-founder of collapsed hedge fund Bayou Group , to 20 years in prison. US District Judge Colleen McMahon also ordered Israel to make $300 million in restitution and forfeit...

UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith Monday urged the passage of a new anti-terror bill that would increase the number of days a terror suspect can be detained without charge to...

Bruce Selya , a senior circuit judge for the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has been designated as presiding judge of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review . The designation was made...

Serbia plans to officially request that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) resume a probe into allegations that separatist Kosovo Liberation Army leaders were involved in trafficking organs taken from Serb prisoners during the...

The US military said Monday it plans to release Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein from custody Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Douglas M. Stone, the deputy commanding general for detainee operations, Multi-National Force–Iraq [official...

Myanmar is completely ill-prepared to hold a national constitutional referendum as part of a democratic political transition, UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro told Reuters in an interview Monday. Myanmar's 45-member Referendum Holding...