Sudan on Tuesday attempted to prevent the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) from considering a report by a UNHRC team sent to investigate conditions in Darfur . The report , issued Monday, calls for...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he will not resign from his position in response to growing controversy over the firings last year of eight US Attorneys that may have been politically motivated...

High-ranking officials in the Australian government pressured the US government to reduce terror charges against Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks , according to a report in The Australian on Tuesday. Attorney General Philip Ruddock ...

Lawmakers dismissed last week by Ecuador's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) fought police as they tried to enter the Congress of Ecuador on Tuesday, sparking violence that led to the suspension of the legislature's activities for...

Charges were dropped Tuesday against the last of seven British soldiers accused of causing the 2003 death of Iraqi civilian Baha Musa . A military panel cleared Major Michael Peebles and Warrant Officer Mark Davies...

The Washington State House of Representatives has passed a bill by a vote of 73-22 that will require public and private schools to provide information about human papilloma virus (HPV) , a sexually transmitted...

Testimony began Tuesday in the trial of a civil suit brought against Sudan by families of US military personnel killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inquiry report;...

Zimbabwe opposition presidential hopeful Morgan Tsvangirai , arrested by government forces at a protest in Harare Sunday, was taken to a hospital Tuesday after a brief appearance in court along with 50 other...

The trial of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former lawyer David Mills began Tuesday in Milan on charges of corruption arising from Berlusconi's alleged payment of $600,000 to Mills for favorable testimony...

The French Cour de Cassation held Tuesday that same-sex marriages are not valid under French law and that marriage can only be between a man and a...