UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith spoke out Monday against a proposal by Prime Minister Tony Blair to extend the 28-day limit on police detentions of terrorism suspects who have not been charged....

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Dan Halutz Monday expressed disappointment about Israel's use of cluster bombs during the recent Middle East conflict and ordered an investigation into...

Thai human rights groups have demanded that former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra face charges for crimes against humanity relating to his rough anti-drug campaign. The Lawyers Council of Thailand and the National Human Rights Commission...

The governors of six of Bolivia's nine states vowed over the weekend to break off relations with President Evo Morales following a move to give Morales' leftist party more power to rewrite the...

Tom Noe , a former Republican fundraiser and prominent coin dealer in Ohio, was sentenced on Monday to 18 years in prison after his conviction last week on theft, corrupt activity, money laundering, forgery and tampering...

Thirty Philippine military officers will face courts-martial on mutiny charges in connection with their alleged involvement in a February coup plot to overthrow the government of Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , a general...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Monday condemned human rights violations occurring in the Palestinian authorities, saying that violations were "intolerable" and expressing concern for civilians in the area. Arbour is currently visiting the...

Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolanos has signed a law that bans all abortion and eliminates a longstanding exception for the health of the mother. Abortion has long been illegal in Nicaragua, though tempered by...

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on Sunday urged state legislators to vote on a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage ban and said he will petition the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to place the question...

The Italian cabinet met Monday to relieve the head of Italy's intelligence agency of his duties, a move prompted by suspicions that he was involved in the alleged 2003 CIA kidnapping of Egyptian cleric...