A week-long meeting of parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) concluded Tuesday without delegates reaching an agreement on a legally binding ban on cluster munitions . Representatives from 102 nations...

The US Army has issued a statement to top personnel reiterating the Army's ban on waterboarding as an interrogation technique, AP reported Tuesday. The Army officially banned the use of waterboarding in September 2006...

A US Marine declined to enter a plea at his Tuesday arraignment on charges stemming from the killings of 24 Iraqi citizens in Haditha in November 2005. Lance Cpl. Stephen B....

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has nominated former Canadian Deputy Attorney General Daniel Bellemare to serve as the commissioner of the UN International Independent Investigation Commission (IIIC) , a UN spokesperson said...

Officials in Myanmar arrested prominent labor rights activist Suu Suu Nway Tuesday, according to a representative for the National League for Democracy-Liberated Area Myanmar in Thailand. An official speaking on condition of anonymity told...

Yahoo! Inc. agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit filed in US federal court alleging that the Internet giant aided and abetted human rights violations committed by the Chinese government by providing Chinese officials...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday granted certiorari in Richlin Security Service v. Chertoff (06-1717) , a case where the Court will consider whether paralegal services can be recovered at the...

Representatives of 26 members of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) met Tuesday in Maldives to work on a draft resolution on climate change to be presented at the 2007 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...

The Malaysian government is drafting legislation that will make it more difficult to hire foreign workers in an effort to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the country, according to Tuesday media reports. Deputy Home Affairs Minister Datuk...

The Japanese House of Representatives passed a controversial bill Tuesday re-authorizing Japan's support for US anti-terror operations in the Indian Ocean, setting the course for Japanese ships to resume refueling for US vessels involved in anti-terrorism or...