New US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that the White House and Congress should collaborate to close the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by transferring the more dangerous detainees elsewhere. Gates told...

The judge presiding over the military commission for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks said Friday that Hicks would be be subject to a maximum seven-year prison sentence under the terms of his...

Thailand Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont declined a request to declare a state of emergency in Bangkok Friday, although he said he had not ruled out the possibility of doing so in the future. Military officials...

Bangladesh on Friday executed six Islamic militants convicted in the 2005 murders of two judges . Authorities previously stated that the executions were scheduled to occur in April . The six militants, members of...

The Thua Thien Hue Provincial People's Court in Vietnam sentenced dissident Catholic priest Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly to eight years' imprisonment Friday for distributing anti-government documents and communicating with foreign pro-democracy activists. Ly...

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and White House counsel Harriet Miers were deeply involved in discussions about the firings of federal prosecutors , according to testimony Thursday from former Gonzales chief...

British resident and Iraqi citizen Bisher al-Rawi is scheduled for release from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay , according to a statement by UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett in Parliament Thursday. Held...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied Thursday that the Japanese government had pressured a Shinto shrine to honor war criminals after the National Diet Library released documents suggesting that the government was deeply...

The Maryland Senate passed a bill Wednesday to ignore the US Electoral College in presidential elections, instead awarding the state's 10 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Currently, the state's...

A Japanese court threw out a lawsuit by a group of Japanese abandoned in China as children after Japan's defeat in World War II, officials said Thursday. Plaintiffs had alleged that the government was responsible for...